NY Times hires WSJ’s Farrell to cover big money and private capital

Maureen Farrell

The New York Times has hired Wall Street Journal reporter Maureen Farrell to cover big money and private capital.

She has been covering initial public offerings and capital markets at The Journal.

She previously covered Wall Street, banking and M&A for the MoneyBeat blog. Prior to joining the Wall Street Journal in 2013, she worked as a reporter at Forbes and CNNMoney. She also worked at Mergermarket and Debtwire.

She graduated from Duke University with a degree in English literature and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism with a master’s degree.

Farrell is the co-author of the book “The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion.”

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.