Onita moves to retail beat at FT

Laura Onita

Laura Onita, assistant companies editor at the Financial Times, is moving to the retail beat.

Onita joined the Financial Times in October from The Telegraph in 2019, where she was retail editor and retail correspondent.

Before that, she was a retail correspondent at the Evening Standard and a business reporter at The Sunday Times. She reported for the Institution of Engineering and Technology and was a journalist on the data and investigative team at Thomson Reuters Foundation.

She interned at The Centre for Investigative Journalism.

Onita has a B.A. in journalism from Anglia Ruskin University.

You can congratulate Onita via Twitter.

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.