5 December 2019: The Financial Times has hired Claire Bushey in its Chicago bureau to lead the London-based news organisation’s reporting on manufacturing in the American Midwest, including spearheading coverage of Boeing and the “Big Three” automakers. Bushey becomes the latest addition to the FT’s bureau network in the US, which is expanding as part of its new American growth strategy.
Peter Spiegel, the FT’s US managing editor, said: “Claire brings a sterling track record of covering Boeing’s 737 MAX scandal as well as unparalleled expertise in the manufacturing sector, which has become a key story for us as Donald Trump attempts to use tariffs against China and trade policy more generally to shore up the US industrial heartland.”
Bushey joins from Crain's Chicago Business, where she has been covering manufacturing, logistics and professional services since 2014. She holds degrees from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and City University of London, and in 2012 edited a book of essays by Chicago Catholics, “An Irrepressible Hope.”
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