Chassany becoming FT’s world news editor

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany

Anne-Sylvaine Chassany, the Paris bureau chief for the Financial Times, is becoming the paper’s world news editor.

She has been Paris bureau chief since January 2015, writing about politics and the economy.

Prior to this role, she was the FT’s global private equity correspondent. Before joining the FT in 2012, she worked for Bloomberg News and Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal in Paris and London, reporting on mergers and acquisitions, energy and European financial institutions.

A graduate of French business school HEC and a former associate at Paribas in Paris and New York, she won the ‘OneToWach’ award from The Work Foundation’s WorkWorld Media Awards in 2006 for ‘Heat builds on Mittal to improve safety and wages’ following a reporting trip to Kazakhstan.

She is the co-author of ‘Enron, la faillite qui ébranla l’Amérique,’ published in 2003.

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.