OLD Media Moves

FT names Mancini its European pharma reporter and Kuchler its global pharma correspondent

The Financial Times has named Donato Paolo Mancini as its European pharmaceuticals reporter.

Hannah Kuchler

In addition, Hannah Kuchler will be moving back to London to become its global pharmaceuticals correspondent. She has been the publication’s U.S. pharmaceuticals correspondent and its San Francisco correspondent.

Mancini previously covered European pharmaceuticals and other news for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal before joining the FT in 2019 and has been part of its coronavirus reporting team since last year.

Kuchler has been with the FT since 2009 and has been in the United States since September 2013, first as its San Francisco correspondent. She took on the pharma correspondent job in 2019. She was also a UK news correspondent and a correspondent for FT Tilt.

Mancini and Kuchler have broken a number of pandemic stories at the FT this past year, including on Gilead’s remdesivir and AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine.

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.

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