OLD Media Moves

Globe and Mail moves Kerr to M&A beat

Jaren Kerr

The (Toronto) Globe and Mail has moved reporter Jaren Kerr to the mergers and acquisitions beat.

He will also cover corporate law.

Kerr has been at the paper since October 2020, primarily covering COVID-19 issues. He previously worked at Yahoo Finance in Canada.

His career began at the University of Toronto, where he served as the managing editor at The Varsity newspaper. He covered breaking news at the Toronto Star in 2017 and 2018, and snapped one of the first photos of Prince Harry and the Duchess of Sussex together.

He was the deputy news editor of Canadaland in 2018 and 2019, where he covered WE Charity.

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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