Martin named capital markets editor at Financial Times

Katie Martin

Katie Martin has been named the capital markets editor at the Financial Times.

She started her new position on Monday.

Martin has been the head of fastFT, its breaking news service. She also writes for other parts of the FT, mainly about markets. She was previously at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones for nearly 11 years.

At the Journal, she was markets news editor in Europe. She was hired by the FT in May 2015 as deputy editor for fastFT.

Adam Samson is the new head of fastFT. He has been a reporter for fastFT since September 2015 and previously worked at Yahoo Finance and Fox Business Network. He is a graduate of Bard College in economics.

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.