Keane departs FT to join forces with Garcia

Aimee Keane

Aimee Keane of the Financial Times has left the news operation.

Keane is joining with former colleague Cardiff Garcia to start an audio production company.

“We’ll have a show a little like the one we used to make together, and we have some ideas that will sound completely new,” she wrote on Twitter. “We’ll also be taking on work as audio consultants, producers, editors and financial journalists for hire.”

At the FT, she has been acting head of audio and coordinated all American-based podcasting operations, including the FT’s fast-growing program “Alphachat,” which won the Digital Audio category at the 2016 Excellence in Financial Journalism.

She joined the FT in London in 2015, and has reported on the health care and leisure sectors.

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.