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FT hires Bush as columnist and associate editor

Stephen Bush

The Financial Times has hired Stephen Bush as a weekly staff columnist and associate editor. He will also write a daily newsletter.

Bush is currently political editor at the New Statesman and will join the FT in 2022 and be based in London.

Bush started his career at the Daily Telegraph. He joined the New Statesman in 2015 as editor of their rolling politics blog, becoming special correspondent in 2016, and political editor in 2018. He writes their daily politics newsletter, Morning Call, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College. In 2017 he was named the Political Studies Association’s Journalist of the Year.

FT editor Roula Khalaf said: “Stephen is one of the most exciting and original voices in British journalism today, and I am delighted that he has decided to join the FT next year.”

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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