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FT reporter Al Omran leaving to focus on newsletter

Ahmed Al Omran

Financial Times reporter Ahmed Al Omran is leaving the newspaper to focus on his newsletter that reports on news in Saudi Arabia.

He joined the FT in December 2017.

Al Omran also covered the Middle East and Saudi Arabia for The Wall Street Journal.

He was born and raised in Hofuf, eastern Saudi Arabia, and graduated with a master’s degree in digital media from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

He has worked for the National Public Radio in Washington before returning to his home country where he launched the site Riyadh Bureau. Before that, his blog Saudi Jeans was one of the most well-known and long standing blogs in the Middle East.

His work has also appeared in major publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian and Foreign Policy.

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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