Forbes hires Dowd to cover private equity and deals

Kevin Dowd

Forbes announced Monday the hiring of Kevin Dowd to cover private equity and mergers and acquisitions.

Dowd previously wrote about the private markets for PitchBook, where he created the Weekend Pitch newsletter. Kevin’s newsletter at Forbes will be called Deal Flow and will be focused on mergers and acquisitions.

His first newsletter will debut on April 18, and it will publish five days a week, Sunday through Thursday.

A native of the Pacific Northwest, he’s an alumnus of the University of Washington with a degree in creative writing and 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.