M&A reporter Spaulding departs Reuters

Rebecca Spaulding

Rebecca Spaulding, a mergers and acquisitions reporter at Reuters, has left the news organization.

Her last day was last week.

“I’m moving on to something new and very exciting that I will talk about soon,” she wrote on Twitter. “But for now, I’m so thankful for having worked with all my Reuters colleagues, who are world-class journalists and even better people.”

Spaulding had been with Reuters since September 2019. She had most recently been on a temporary assignment as part of its COVID-19 team. She had also focused on biotech, pharma, healthcare, and industrial sectors.

She previously covered biotechnology as a beat reporter at Bloomberg News, where she also covered municipal bonds.

Spaulding holds a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from New York University.

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.