NY Times hires FT’s Solomon for Berlin bureau

Erika Solomon

Financial Times reporter Erika Solomon has been hired by the New York Times in its Berlin bureau.

She started on Monday.

Solomon was part of a team at the FT that won a Gerald Loeb Award this past year for its coverage of Wirecard. She has been at the newspaper for eight years.

She previously worked at Reuters for nearly five years as its Gulf correspondent and as its Syria and Lebanon correspondent. She holds a bachelor’s 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.