Wall Street Journal reporter Laura Cooper has moved to the beverage and tobacco beat.
She has been covering private equity and mergers and acquisitions for the last two-and-a-half years.
Before joining the deals team, Cooper was a reporter for WSJ Pro Private Equity, where she regularly broke news involving private-equity deals, fundraising and trends impacting the industry. She previously focused primarily on healthcare and technology.
Cooper covered healthcare M&A at the Deal and Mergermarket before joining the Journal. She also reported on economics at Japan’s largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. Her journalism career began in the Hamptons at the Southampton Press: Western Edition.
She has an undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University on Long Island, where she studied journalism and political science.
