FT hires Astrasheuskaya to cover oil, gas and metals in Moscow

The Financial Times has hired Nastassia Astrasheuskaya to cover oil, gas and metals in its Moscow bureau.

She is expected to start on Oct. 8. She will also cover Central Asia.

Astrasheuskaya has been an associate editor for S&P Global Platts Oil since January 2015.

She also worked as a TV producer and as a correspondent for Reuters in Moscow from December 2010 to December 2012 and from January 2014 to October 2014. For Reuters, she covered topics such as punk rock band Pussy Riot’s anti-Kremlin protests to the Bolshoi Theatre.

Astrasheuskaya is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill.

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.