The Financial Times has hired The Information reporter Maria Heeter to cover mergers and acquisitions and activist investors.
Heeter will start later this month and be based in New York.
She has been covering a similar beat for The Information for the past year. Before that, Heeter was covering venture capital, cryptocurrency and finance for The Information.
She was a real estate reporting intern at Bloomberg News. She was an economics major at Scripps College and a contributor for The Student Life, the student newspaper of the seven Claremont Colleges, where she formerly served as editor-in-chief.
Previously, she was a reporting intern at The Sacramento Bee. She began her career as a freelancer for InDepth New Hampshire, covering state politics and the 2020 presidential campaign.
