LaCapra returning to Reuters

Carmel Crimmins, financial services editor at Reuters, sent out the following announcement on Thursday:

I am delighted to announce that Lauren Tara LaCapra will be returning to Reuters on February 8 as Deputy Regional Editor in Charge for the financial services sector. Lauren rejoins the financials team in New York from Fusion, where she has been a senior editor overseeing its newly launched business section.

Lauren will be running our coverage of Wall Street banks as well as helping me to run the wider financial services file. She brings a stellar track record to this assignment.

Lauren originally joined Reuters in 2011 as a reporter covering Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley and kicked butt from day one. In her first week, she had a scoop about layoffs and broke scores of stories about Wall Street reinventing itself in the wake of the financial crisis. She helped evolve the beat from one that focused on news that was already breaking to one that routinely broke news. Lauren was promoted to team leader in 2013. In that role, she continued to write big stories about Wall Street, but also collaborated with reporters across the file on pieces ranging from a feature about a Merrill Lynch boss’s odd management style to a regulatory crackdown on leveraged lending to shadow banking to the occasional M&A scoop.

In her spare time, Lauren likes to go to Rockaway Beach, even in the winter, and spending quality time with her dogs, Captain and Tallulah.

Please join me in wishing Lauren well on her new assignment.