FT’s Kaplan departing to be head of news at ARTE

Renée Kaplan

Renée Kaplan, head of digital editorial development at the Financial Times, is leaving to become head of news at ARTE, a European news channel based in France.

Kaplan has been with the FT since May 2015 and is currently a Nieman Journalism Fellow.

Before, Kaplan was chief content officer at Havas Worldwide in Paris, where she launched its Content Studio.

She also worked at CNN, “60 Minutes,” The New York Observer and “The Charlie Rose Show.”

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Harvard University.

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.