O’Dwyer named FT’s deputy companies editor

Michael O'Dwyer

Michael O’Dwyer

Michael O’Dwyer has been named the deputy companies editor at The Financial Times.

He has been the chief UK business correspondent, writing about the intersection between UK business and politics and about the big issues facing British companies and their boards. He was previously the FT’s accountancy correspondent.

Before that he was a reporter at the Telegraph, covering sectors including financial and professional services.

O’Dwyer was jointly named young journalist of the year at the Wincott Awards for 2020.

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.