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FT makes editorial changes in Europe

The Financial Times has made changes to its European editorial team, which has 465 reporters and editors.

As part of the change Alex Barker takes up the new post of European diplomatic editor, based in Brussels.

The other changes include:

  • Anne Sylvaine Chassany has been named Paris bureau chief. Previously private equity correspondent, Chassany will now oversee FT’s coverage of France.
  • Henry Foy has been named central Europe correspondent, based in Warsaw. He was previously motor industry correspondent based in London.
  • James Politi is now the FT’s Rome bureau chief. He was previously U.S. M&A correspondent in New York and U.S. economics and trade correspondent in Washington.
  • Andrew Byrne is now the FT’s Hungary correspondent, based in Budapest.
  • Duncan Robinson has been appointed EU correspondent based in Brussels.
  • James Shotter has been named Frankfurt correspondent. He was previously UK companies reporter and Switzerland and Austria correspondent. The FT’s correspondents in Germany now report directly to Stefan Wagstyl in Berlin, chief correspondent in Germany.
  • Lindsay Fortado joins the FT from Bloomberg as London-based legal correspondent in April.
  • David Sheppard joins the FT from Reuters as deputy commodities editor in April.

Barker has spent the last four years in Brussels as EU correspondent for the FT. Before that he spent four years as a political correspondent in Westminster.

“The FT’s European coverage has been a must-read for world leaders since our first international edition in 1979, and these appointments demonstrate our commitment to continue setting the agenda in this important region,” said Roula Khalaf, foreign editor and assistant editor at the FT, in a statement. “The creation of the European diplomatic editor role recognizes new challenges in European diplomacy and growing questions about the future of the EU.”

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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