FT hires Fletcher as capital markets correspondent

Laurence Fletcher

The Financial Times has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Laurence Fletcher as a capital markets correspondent.

Fletcher previously covered European hedge funds for The Journal in London since April 2014.

He wrote a series of investigations into the collapse of hedge fund Heather Capital and the revelation of the scandal surrounding collapsed hedge fund Dynamic Decisions.

Before joining The Journal, Fletcher worked at Reuters as a European hedge funds correspondent for eight years. He also spent five-plus years at CityWire.

Fletcher is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.

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.