FT reporter Munshi moving to Africa

Neil Munshi

Neil Munshi has been appointed West Africa correspondent at Financial Times and will be based in Lagos, Nigeria.

He will begin his new role in the new year.

He is currently a reporting for the FT in New York.

Munshi previously was the paper’s Chicago and Midwest correspondent, where he was best known for being one of the reporters arrested while covering the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. Prior to that appointment, Munshi was a “beyondbrics” reporter based in India.

He also was the U.S. writer for FirstFT, a twice-daily email on news from the FT and across the web.

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.