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Activist reporter Deveau departs Bloomberg

Scott Deveau

Bloomberg News reporter Scott Deveau has left the news organization after almost nine years to join Longacre Square Partners as a managing director.

He had been covering the shareholder activist beat from New York for the last four years.

Deveau has been based in Toronto as a mergers and acquisitions and money manager reporter covering Canadian deals since May 2014.

Before joining Bloomberg, Deveau covered the aerospace, airline, rail and automotive sectors for the Financial Post. He also contributed to the arts section of the National Post as a music writer and was a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Post, he worked as an online editor and reporter at the Globe and Mail from 2005 to 2007.

Deveau is a 2000 graduate of Queens 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.

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