FT hires Akwagyiram to be digital editor on world desk

Alexis Akwagyiram

The Financial Times has hired Alexis Akwagyiram to be a digital editor on its world desk.

He previously was Nigeria bureau chief for Reuters.

Akwagyiram has been bureau chief since 2017 and before that was a senior correspondent based in Lagos. As bureau chief, he managed a staff of 20 across the country. As a reporter, he covered economic trends, politics, civil society and the arts.

He previously worked at BBC News for more than a decade.

Akwagyiram is a graduate of the University of Sheffield.

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.