David Gelles, a New York-based reporter for the Financial Times, is changing beats — to mergers and acquisitions from media. He confirmed the switch in a series of tweets on Thursday.
Gelles was previously a small business reporter for the Miami Herald, as well as an intern at Forbes. He had freelance experience for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and others.
Gelles graduated in 2002 from Boston University and in 2008 from the Graduate School of Journalism at Cal-Berkeley. He also blogs for the FT Tech blog for the newspaper.
He is best known for landing, along with FT managing editor Gillian Tett, a 2011 prison interview with convicted Ponzi scheme Bernie Madoff.
