Categories: OLD Media Moves

Manson moves to FT’s DC bureau

Katrina Manson is joining the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Financial Times as U.S. foreign policy and defense correspondent.

She will start May 1.

Manson is an award-winning journalist, previously the FT’s East Africa correspondent based in Nairobi. She has reported widely on politics, war and foreign affairs, including from Somalia, Afghanistan, Djibouti and DR Congo.

In 2014, she won the Press Award at the One World Media Awards for her FT Weekend report, Welcome to Mogadishu.

She was previously Reuters correspondent in DR Congo, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso, editor of Africa investor magazine and has written for international newspapers and magazines from west and central Africa and from Afghanistan.

Manson is co-author of several guidebooks, including the Bradt Guides to Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone.

She is a prizewinning scholar from Balliol College, Oxford University, where she read modern history and politics.

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.