Wu departing FT for The Economist

Ethan Wu

Ethan Wu is leaving the Financial Times to become the Asia correspondent for The Economist.

Wu has been at the Financial Times since November 2021 covering finance in New York.

At the Financial Times, he hosts the twice-weekly “Unhedged” podcast on markets and finance. He also co-writes the Unhedged daily newsletter.

Before joining the FT, Wu worked at Business Insider and Adweek and studied economics at Cornell 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.