Categories: OLD Media Moves

Bloomberg’s Deveau moving to shareholder activist beat

Scott Deveau

Bloomberg News reporter Scott Deveau is moving to New York later this year to cover shareholder activists.

Deveau has been based in Toronto as a mergers and acquisitions and money manager reporter covering Canadian deals since May 2014. He still plans to cover M&A.

Before joining Bloomberg, Deveau covered the aerospace, airline, rail and automotive sectors for the Financial Post. He also contributed to the arts section of the National Post as a music writer and was a war correspondent in Afghanistan. Prior to joining the Post, he worked as an online editor and reporter at the Globe and Mail from 2005 to 2007.

Deveau is a 2000 graduate of Queens University.

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.

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