Savage joins The Guardian as South Africa correspondent

Rachel Savage

The Guardian has hired Rachel Savage as its South Africa correspondent.

She has been the Africa senior markets correspondent for Reuters covering African markets and finance since 2022.

Savage previously was at Thomson Reuters Foundation, where she was a deputy editor and reporter. She has also worked freelance. Savage has also worked as East Africa correspondent and then as West Africa correspondent at The Economist.

She was also a web reporter and web editor at Management Today. She has also interned at the Financial Times and Bloomberg.

Savage is a University of Oxford graduate.

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.