Categories: OLD Media Moves

International Biz Times hires British biz editor, additional columnists

Gaurav Sharma

Gaurav Sharma has been named UK business editor for the International Business Times, where he will also write a regular column.

Sharma had been contributing to Forbes, where he covered oil and gas. He has more than 15 years of experience in the financial and trade press.

Columnist, broadcaster and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown will also start a regular weekly column in June on topics such as domestic and international politics, feminism and the arts.

Joining her as a columnist is Inna Shevchenko, activist and leader of the international women’s movement FEMEN.

Alastair Campbell, known for his work as director of communications and strategy for Tony Blair between 1994 and 2003, has also started a fortnightly column.

Other new columnists include Michael Toner, former chief leader writer at The Daily Mail, and Ben Rooney, current holder of the Europas European Technology Journalist of the Year.

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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