Gapper named FT’s chief UK business columnist

John Gapper

John Gapper has been named chief UK business columnist for the Financial Times.

He has been a business columnist of the FT Weekend. He writes a weekly column on business and society from a consumer perspective, and other features and interviews.

He was formerly the FT’s chief business commentator and opinion & analysis editor. He has worked for the FT since 1987 in London, New York and Tokyo, and has covered banking, media and technology and employment.

Gapper is also co-author with Nick Denton of “All That Glitters: The Fall of Barings.”

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.