Senior correspondent Acton departs MLex

Michael Acton

Michael Acton, a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco, is leaving after five years.

He has been in San Francisco since 2020 after working in its Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels.

Acton has a degree in international relations and politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in history and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.

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.