The Financial Times has hires Christian Berthelsen as its U.S. editor for markets and companies coverage.
He had been at The Messenger as a financial investigations reporter.
Previously, he covered financial crime and illicit finance, including national security and international tax evasion for Bloomberg.
Prior to joining Bloomberg in July 2016, Berthelsen was a senior commodity markets reporter for the Money & Investing section at The Wall Street Journal.
He oversaw coverage of securities law, entertainment law and law firm business for the Los Angeles Daily Journal. He also worked as a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.
While at the Chronicle, he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting.
Berthelsen has a bachelor’s degree in communications from Hofstra University and a M.S. in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
