The Information hires Friday to cover private equity

Francesca Friday

The Information has hired Francesca Friday to cover private equity.

She will start on Jan. 2.

Friday was previously a New York-based reporter and the producer of Due Diligence, the FT’s daily briefing on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, and private equity.

She was previously a senior reporter at FT Specialist publication Mandatewire, where she covered asset management. She has also served as a contributor at FundFire and was a reporter at Ignites. Also, she held the posts of politics, health and lifestyle writer and worked as a fashion writer at Observer Media and Betches LLC, respectively.

Friday is a graduate of Rollins 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.