Categories: OLD Media Moves

FT media reporter takes over M&A beat

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.

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.