Shotter to become FT’s Jerusalem correspondent

James Shotter

The Financial Times has tapped James Shotter to become its Jerusalem correspondent.

He will start in mid May.

Shotter has been based in Warsaw for the past five years as its Central Europe correspondent.

He also was posted to Frankfurt covering German finance, and before that to Zurich as Switzerland and Austria correspondent. He joined the FT as a leader writer in 2010.

Shotter interned at Die Welt and The Economist. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cambridge and a master’s degree from the University of Vienna.

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.