Scaggs gets new beat at Financial Times

Alexandra Scaggs

Financial Times reporter Alexandra Scaggs is now covering corporate fixed-income markets for the Alphaville blog and paper.

Scaggs has been at the FT since June 2016 as an Alphaville columnist.

She previously worked at Bloomberg News from February 2015 to June 2016, covering the government bond market.

Scaggs had joined Bloomberg after three years at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered the stock market and investment trends. Scaggs previously worked at Institutional Investor for two years.

She is a business journalism graduate from Washington & Lee University.

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.