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FT hires Kommenda as reporter on visual stories team

Niko Kommenda

The Financial Times has hired Niko Kommenda to be a reporter on its visual stories team.

He will start later this month.

Kommenda has been at The Guardian as a visual projects editor. He joined The Guardian in 2017 on the visuals team. In May 2019, he launched an interactive page live-tracking the use of coal for power generation in the United Kingdom. He produced and wrote the article in the space of three days, and set up the page to update itself every 15 minutes.

He has also teamed up with data projects editor Caelainn Barr to analyze the gender pay gap figures submitted every year by British employers. He’s had a leading role in covering these filings since they were first made mandatory in 2018.

While studying computational journalism in Cardiff University’s pioneering joint honors course, which blends the skills of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and the School of Computer Science & Informatics, he was selected to join the Guardian as Google Newslab fellow in the summer of 2016.

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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