Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg hires FT’s M&A reporter Hammond

Ed Hammond, who covers mergers and acquisitions in the United States for the Financial Times, has been hired by Bloomberg News.

His start date at his new job is still to be determined.

Hammond has been covering M&A for about a year. He previously worked for the business newspaper in London as its property correspondent. He is now based out of New York.

He took over the property job in 2011 and is responsible for the FT’s coverage of commercial and residential real estate stories world wide. He also wrote the fortnightly Perspective Column for the FT Weekend’s House and Home.

Hammond started is career in journalism as a graduate with the FT in 2007 and has worked as a reporter in a number of different sectors, including capital markets and heavy industry.

He has a degree in English literature and an MA in print journalism.

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.