FT reporter returning to Huffington Post

Shahien Nasiripour, who left the Huffington Post in 2011 to join the Financial Times as a financial and regulatory reporter, is returning to HuffPo.

Nasiripour was a senior business reporter at Huffington Post from 2009 to 2011. In his new job, he will “be on the financial and regulatory beat, including Wall Street, Washington policy, and the global response to the financial crisis,” according to a memo from Arianna Huffington obtained by Joe Pompeo of Capital New York.

Previously, Nasiripour was a reporter at the Center for Investigative Reporting, the nation’s oldest nonprofit investigative news organization. He’s worked as a researcher for ESPN and as a reporter for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and The Providence Journal.

He is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

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.