Roula Khalaf

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Roula Khalaf (2017)

Roula Khalaf ( Arabic رولا خلف, DMG Rūlā Ḫalaf born in Beirut ) is a British-Lebanese journalist . She has been editor-in-chief of the British newspaper Financial Times since January 2020 . She is the first woman at the helm in the paper's 131-year history.

education

Khalaf grew up in Beirut. She graduated from Syracuse University in New York State an undergraduate degree in communications and a master's degree from Columbia University in New York in international relations .

Career

After graduating, she worked for Forbes Magazine for four years . There, her article about the controversial stockbroker Jordan Belfort , whose life was portrayed in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street by Martin Scorsese, caused a stir . In 1995, she began as North Africa - correspondent at the Financial Times. Later she was responsible for international reporting in Africa, Europe and the Middle East and headed a correspondent network with over 100 employees. She was the editor-in-chief of a Financial Times branch in the Middle East and reported on the Arab Spring .

In January 2020, she took over the editorial management of the Financial Times, succeeding longtime editor-in-chief Lionel Barber . For the first time in the newspaper's 131 years, a woman became editor-in-chief.

Awards

Khalaf's series Qatar: From Emirates to Empire on the Emirate of Qatar received the Foreign Press Association's 2013 Feature Story of the Year award . In 2016 she was named International Commentator of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Marc Tracy: Financial Times Names First Woman as Top Editor in Its 131 Years . In: The New York Times . November 12, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 30, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Brief portrait. In: World Economic Forum. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
  4. ^ Khalaf picked as first woman to edit Financial Times, Barber bows out. November 12, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  5. ↑ With Roula Khalaf 2020, the “Financial Times” will have its first editor-in-chief. In: Meedia. November 4, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  6. ^ Financial Times Names First Woman as Top Editor in Its 131 Years. In: New York Times. November 12, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  7. ^ Roula Khalaf. April 6, 2018, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Roula Khalaf becomes the first woman to head the Financial Times. In: Handelsblatt. November 12, 2019, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Portrait on the homepage of the Financial Times. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Winners of The Comment Awards 2016 announced by Lydia O'Neill. Accessed April 30, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Khalaf, Roula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-Lebanese journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut