The Information hires FT’s Germano

Sara Germano

The Information has hired Financial Times reporter Sara Germano.

She will start on Dec. 2 and cover the business and future of sports—with a strong focus on women’s sports.

Germano has been the FT’s U.S. sports business correspondent for the past four years. Before the FT, Germano was with the Wall Street Journal working as a staff reporter covering corporate news in Germany with a focus on tech, media, retail, telecommunications, and real estate. Before that, she was first a reporter, then an online editor with the Journal.

Prior to coming to the WSJ, Germano was an Arthur F. Burns fellow at BILD Gmbh & Co. KG. In addition, she has also served as an intern at Columbia Journalism Review and as a personal research assistant at Mark Singer. She was also a contributing editor at Civic Research Institute.

Germano is a B.A. in philosophy and history from Fordham University.

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.