FT hires WSJ’s Mancini to cover corporations

Donato Paolo Mancini

Donato Paolo Mancini, who covers European pharmaceuticals and other news for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, has been hired by the Financial Times.

Mancini will be a general corporate reporter for the FT in London. His last day at the Journal is Friday. He starts at the FT on June 19.

His reporting has also appeared in Bloomberg, The New York Times, Al Jazeera English, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, The Guardian, The Times of London, STAT News, The London Evening Standard, Vice News and other publications.

He has reported on politics, terrorism, crime, health care and more, and holds a master’s degree from City University of 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.