Ruehl to cover Switzerland, Austria for the FT

Mercedes Ruehl

Financial Times correspondent Mercedes Ruehl is moving to Europe to cover Switzerland and Austria.

She has been its Singapore correspondent.

Prior to joining the Financial Times, Ruehl was a journalist at The Australian Financial Review, covering various sectors of business, including mergers and acquisitions, stock markets, currencies, politics, and commercial property.

She also served as a news desk assistant at The Sydney Morning Herald and later on, wrote for SMH BusinessDay.

Ruehl has a B.A. in political science and government from the University of Sydney and a graduate certificate in journalism from the University of Technology Sydney.

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.