Wimbish among the layoffs at FT Specialist

Whitney Wimbish

Whitney Wimbish is among the layoffs at Financial Times Specialist.

She has been deputy editor for the past three years and before that was associate editor. Wimbish was also managing editor of BoardIQ, the FT Specialist publication for mutual fund directors.

Wimbish started at FT Specialist as a reporter for FundFire, which covers the business of institutional investing. In this position she covered pension plans, foundations and endowments, and was promoted to senior reporter after two years.

She also worked for the Cambodia Daily and the New Jersey Media Group as a reporter.

Wimbish holds a bachelor’s degree from Evergreen State College and master’s degrees from The New School and the University of Edinburgh.

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.