Alison Smith leaving the Financial Times

Alison Smith, a reporter at the Financial Times, is leaving the business newspaper after more than 20 years.

Smith is the FT’s chief corporate correspondent. Her positions at the paper have included political correspondent, financial services correspondent, Lex writer, UK companies editor and, most recently, leader writer.

“At the moment I am intending to leave business journalism,” said Smith in an email to Talking Biz News. “Instead, I plan to volunteer with a literacy charity and to help with my local food bank.”

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.