FT taps Klasa to cover asset managers

Adrienne Klasa

The Financial Times has named Adrienne Klasa to cover asset managers.

She will start her new beat in January.

Klasa is currently the deputy markets editor. She has been the world desk’s digital editor, focused on creative commissioning, digital innovation and visual journalism. Previously she was a reporter and editor at FT Group publications This is Africa, The Banker and fDi.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from McGill University and a master’s degree from the University of 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.