Samson starts as FT’s US executive news editor

Adam Samson

Adam Samson has started as U.S. executive news editor for the Financial Times in New York.

Samson has been the FT’s Turkey correspondent, covering the economy, politics, and business and finance in the vast country. He previously led the FT’s global markets coverage from the group’s headquarters in London.

He previously worked for Yahoo Finance and Fox Business Network in New York.

Samson is a graduate of Bard College.

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.