Reuters hires Nguyen as US finance editor

Lananh Nguyen

Reuters has hired New York Times banking reporter Lananh Nguyen as its U.S. finance editor.

She had been at the Times since June 2021 and wrote primarily about banks.

Nguyen previously worked at Bloomberg News, where she covered banks, wealth management, and market structure in New York. She joined Bloomberg in 2010 in London, and over time covered foreign exchange, hedge funds, asset managers, insurance and central bankers as well. She wrote for Bloomberg Businessweek and was a regular guest on Bloomberg TV.

She started her reporting career in London writing about energy and the global financial crisis for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.

Nguyen holds a BA in political science from Tufts, studied at the London School of Economics and received a masters in finance and economic policy from the University of London.

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.