FT’s Eastern Europe editor moving to lead editorial writer

Neil Buckley

Neil Buckley, the Financial Times’ Eastern European editor for the past eight years, is moving to a new job next month.

“I’m moving next month to be @FT’s chief leader writer (editorial writer),” wrote Buckley on Twitter. “I’ll still write editorials on the region — among other things — so hope to stay in touch with many who made this job so rewarding.”

Buckley has been with the FT since 1991. He was a correspondent in Brussels from 1996 to 2000 and a correspondent in New York from 2002 to 2004.

He was also Moscow bureau chief from 2005 to 2008 and a columnist on the FT’s influential Lex column from 2000 to 2002 and 2008 to 2010.

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.