Samson named FT’s market news editor

Adam Samson

Adam Samson has been named markets news editor at the Financial Times.

He starts his new role on Wednesday.

Samson currently leads the Financial Times’ global breaking news desk with journalists in London, New York and Hong Kong. He also reports extensively on capital markets, focusing on bonds and currencies.

He joined the Financial Times as a reporter for fastFT. In that role, he covered breaking financial news. Adam was previously a breaking news editor for Yahoo Finance.

Prior to that, he was a senior editor for Fox Business Network.

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.