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Web editor for FT leaves for Mashable

Jason Abbruzzese, a web editor at the Financial Times for more than two years, has left the business paper for a job at Mashable.

At Mashable, Abbruzzese will be a media reporter. His last day at the Financial Times was Friday.

At the FT, Abbruzzese was Responsible for editing raw copy for content, style and grammar, and prepping content for FT.com with metadata, hyperlinks and appropriate tags. He contributed to a wide variety of sections of the paper and website including world news, company and market news, business life, beyondbrics, Alphaville, and the FT Data Blog.

He also maintained the home pages on FT.com for story order, presentation, and photo appearance.

Abbruzzese has a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from Australian National 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.