Categories: OLD Media Moves

FT’s Facebook reporter switches to biotech, pharma beat

Hannah Kuchler, who has been covering Facebook for the Financial Times for the past five-and-a-half years, is moving to the U.S. biotech, health care and pharmaceuticals beat.

“I’m excited to report on how technology is transforming health: the promise and the perils,” she wrote on Twitter.

Hannah Murphy is the new Facebook reporter at the FT.

Kuchler has been at the FT for nearly a decade. Her first beat was covering UK retailers and European consumer goods companies. She also worked on FT Tilt in Hong Kong and as a news reporter in London.

She has been in San Francisco since September 2013.

Murphy has been with the paper since 2015, originally as a finance reporter in London. She moved to San Francisco last month.

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.