FT’s Campbell moving to an editing position

Peter Campbell

Peter Campbell of the Financial Times is moving to an editing position to help oversee UK election coverage.

He has been the FT’s global motor industry correspondent, based in London. He led the FT’s coverage of the industry and works with a team of local correspondents around the world to cover the major car makers, industry trends and technological breakthroughs.

Campbell also chaired the FT’s annual “Future of the Car Summit,” where he has interviewed industry leaders including Elon Musk, Carlos Tavares and Jim Farley.

Before this role he covered technology and UK company news for the FT, and he has previously covered energy, retail, telecoms, media and tax. He was named Young Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards for 2014.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.