Greeley named U.S. econ editor at Financial Times

Brendan Greeley

Brendan Greeley has been promoted to U.S. economics editor at the Financial Times.

He has been working for FT Alphaville.

He previously covered the intersection of politics and the economy for Bloomberg News in New York before leaving in March 2017.

Greeley was also once a co-anchor of Bloomberg Television’s “Bloomberg Surveillance” and a staff writer at Bloomberg Businessweek.

In 2012, he received a New York Press Club award for special events reporting for a Bloomberg Businessweek cover story, “Why Bin Laden Lost.” He has written cover features on the Pentagon’s response to the Ebola epidemic, how to sell soccer cleats, the reinsurance industry since Sept. 11 and Paul Krugman’s Twitter fight with the President of Estonia.

Previously, Greeley was a technology and policy correspondent at The Economist. Greeley also launched, edited, and contributed to the publication’s Babbage blog.

Before joining The Economist, Greeley was “blogger in chief” for the public radio program “Open Source,” a national show distributed by Public Radio International.

His freelance print work has appeared in the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal Europe.

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.