FT names Gray its U.S. consumer correspondent

The Financial Times has named Alistair Gray as its U.S. consumer correspondent.

Gray will cover a range of topics within the U.S. retail and consumer industries, including shopping malls, cigarettes, clothing, food, cleaning products and beer.

He previously was a U.S. financial correspondent for the past two and a half years based in New York. He joined the FT in October 2007 and has been a British companies reporter and an insurance reporter in London.

Gray holds a degree from University of Edinburgh. He holds a postgraduate diploma from City University in 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.