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FT taps Seddon to be Moscow bureau chief

Max Seddon

Max Seddon has been named Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times.

Seddon will start his new job next month.

He replaces Henry Foy, who is becoming the paper’s EU diplomatic correspondent.

Seddon has been with the paper since 2016 in the Moscow bureau as a reporter. He previously was a foreign affairs reporter for BuzzFeed News and a reporter for the Associated Press in Moscow.

Seddon is a University of Oxford graduate.

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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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