FT names Ross deputy news editor

Alice Ross

The Financial Times has appointed Alice Ross as a deputy news editor at the paper.

Rebecca Bream is the other deputy news editor at the FT.

Ross was previously editing an email newsletter called “Trade Secrets.” The newsletter is published four days a week, Monday through Thursday.

Ross was previously a wealth correspondent and editor of FT Wealth. She has held a range of roles across the FT including Frankfurt bureau chief, currencies correspondent and deputy money editor.

She was also a personal finance reporter at the FT.

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.