FT names European diplomatic correspondent

The Financial Times announced Wednesday the hiring of Arthur Beesley as its European diplomatic correspondent.

Beesley will be based in Brussels and report into Alex Barker, who has recently assumed the role of Brussels bureau chief.

Beesley joins from the Irish Times where he was economics editor. Prior to that he served as Brussels correspondent, and he has held a number of senior roles at the title during a 20-year career in journalism.

“As European diplomatic correspondent Arthur will further strengthen the FT’s award-winning Brussels team,” said FT editor Lionel Barber in a statement. “His appointment will help meet increasing demand for more in-depth reports on Europe among our global readers.”

The FT’s coverage of Europe and the eurozone financial crisis, including the series How The Euro Was Saved, has consistently topped the most-read topics on FT.com this decade. In 2012, 2013 and 2015, the FT Brussels team won recognition for its eurozone coverage at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

In 2016, Gideon Rachman, FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator, was named commentator of the year by the European Press Prize.

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.