Politi named world trade editor for Financial Times

James Politi

James Politi has been named the world trade editor for the Financial Times and will be moving to its Washington bureau in August.

Politi is currently the Rome bureau chief.

He replaces Shawn Donnan, who left the FT for a job at Bloomberg News as a senior reporter.

Politi received an undergraduate degree in international politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington. He moved to London in 1999 to specialize in international relations with a masters degree at the London School of Economics.

After the fellowship, Politi entered the graduate trainee program of The Financial Times. and has worked in London, Washington and New York for the paper.

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.