FT names Crow its banking editor

David Crow, the senior U.S. business correspondent at the Financial Times who has been primarily covering the pharma beat, has been named its banking editor and will be moving to London next month.

On Twitter, Crow wrote, “Very excited about the new opportunity, but sad to say goodbye to the pharma beat. Thanks to everyone who helped me try to do it justice.”

Crow has been the senior U.S. business correspondent for the past four years. He joined the FT in June 2012 as an assistant news editor and held that spot until September 2014.

He previously was the managing editor and head of news at City A.M. in London. He previously was the politics editor at City A.M.

Crow also worked as a media and technology writer for The Spectator. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Glasgow.

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.