Muir moves to economics beat at FT

Martha Muir

Financial Times reporter Martha Muir has moved to the economics beat in Washington.

She has been covering personal finance and investment.

Before joining the FT, she was a reporter at Trading Risk, a Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc title, where she covered the Insurance Linked Securities and reinsurance markets.

In addition, Muir has interned at the Financial Times and the Daily Mirror.

Muir has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Durham 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.