Financial Times names Smith its U.S. economics editor

Colby Smith

Colby Smith has been named U.S. economics editor at the Financial Times.

She previously covered U.S. rates, foreign exchange rates and Latin America for the FT’s markets team in New York. She has also written for Alphaville.

Prior to the FT, she worked at the Economist and Bloomberg, where she was a producer for “What’d you Miss?” She was also an associate producer for “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

Smith holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge.

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.