FT hires Pollard for “Due Diligence” newsletter

Amelia Pollard

The Financial Times has hired Amelia Pollard to be a reporter and producer on the team for the “Due Diligence” newsletter, which focuses on M&A, private equity and corporate finance.

Aside from the newsletter, Pollard will also help cover corporate finance for the paper.

She will still be based in New York, and also hope to keep up her previous coverage of bankruptcies and distressed companies, which was her most recent beat at Bloomberg News.

She previously covered consumer companies, foreign exchange, investing and at Bloomberg-owned CityLab, where she wrote the daily newsletter and enterprise stories.

Pollard also worked at Los Angeles Review of Books as associate politics editor and as a contributing writer at The American Prospect.

She is a graduate of Middlebury College.

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.