Baker joining Reuters M&A team

Soyoung Kim, the editor in charge of mergers and acquisitions coverage in the Americas for Reuters, sent out the following announcement:

I’m excited to announce that Liana Baker is joining our New York-based M&A team to cover mergers and acquisitions in technology, media and telecoms, effective July 7^th.

She’s taking on one of the most high-profile, high-pressure reporting positions at Reuters and will try to break the next big deal for tech and media titans such as Google, HP, Apple, Verizon, Fox, Disney etc. Coming off two years covering the cable and media industry for Reuters, Liana is not new to the world of M&A, having broken news on the recent round of cable consolidation between Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter and covering AT&T’s DirecTV takeover.

As a killer media industry reporter,  she was the first to write about Time Warner Cable’s golden parachute for its CEO in the case of a merger, broke the news of who Sirius XM’s new CEO would be under new management of Liberty Media and profiled a little known Dish Network executive who is calling the shots on its closely watched wireless strategy. She once tracked down cable cowboy John Malone at 6 am in Sun Valley, Idaho for an early morning, exclusive interview on cable consolidation.

Liana is joining our global M&A team at a time when dealmaking frenzy is sweeping the TMT industry, and will work closely with colleagues in the west coast and globally to lead coverage of events that will reshape the industry in years to come.

Liana joined Reuters in 2010 after graduating from Northwestern’s journalism school. She grew up in Montreal as a diehard Montreal Expos fan (RIP) and is an avid skier who loves double black diamond runs!

Please join me in congratulating Liana on her new appointment.