FT hires Business Insider reporter

Mamta Badkar, a reporter for Business Insider for the past four years, has been hired by the Financial Times.

She will start next week working for Fast FT, a service that provides news and views 24 hours a day.

Badkar had been covering emerging markets and the U.S. housing market for Business Insider. She also covered breaking economic data.

At Columbia University’s journalism school, she reported stories for The Bronx Ink. My master’s project focused on the impact music has on people with Tourette’s syndrome.

Before moving to New York, Badkar worked as a staff writer at Verve, a national monthly in India covering the cultural beat. Her most memorable reporting experience was a feature on the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks.

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.