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FT hires Franklin as U.S. banking editor

Joshua Franklin

The Financial Times has hired Joshua Franklin as its U.S. banking editor.

He started this week.

He previously was at Reuters covering mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and corporate finance  since May 2019.

He previously covered private equity and IPOs. He was also in the Reuters bureau in Zurich, where he covered Swiss investment banks as well as Switzerland’s central bank, and broke major news during his three-year stint there. His scoops included the U.S. Department of Justice having asked Credit Suisse to pay more than $5 billion to settle a probe over its sale of toxic mortgage securities, UBS restructuring its flagship wealth management business, and revelations on exchanges between Credit Suisse’s CEO and his global markets head over $1 billion in trading losses.

He previously worked for Reuters in London, where he joined as a trainee and gained experience working on several desks. Franklin studied French and German at the University of Bristol, and got a masters degree in political journalism at City University in London.

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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