Reuters adds two reporters to its deals team

Greg Roumeliotis, editor in charge of deals at Reuters, sent out the following announcement to the staff:

I’m pleased to announce two new additions to the Reuters deals team in New York.

Carl O’Donnell has been named healthcare M&A reporter. In his new role, Carl will break news and provide insight on the biggest deals in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors in the Americas. Carl joins Reuters from Mergermarket, where he primarily covered real estate investment trusts and also wrote stories about consumer retail, hospitality and technology companies. He was previously an intern at Forbes Magazine, where split his time between reporting on the world’s billionaires and covering financial markets. He has a master’s degree in business and economic reporting from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Temple University. Born in Cape Coral, Florida, Carl grew up outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jessica DiNapoli joins the Reuters deal team in the newly created position of corporate restructuring reporter. She will work closely with our legal team to tell the stories of companies preparing for and coping with bankruptcy, or seeking to avert it. Jessica has been on the municipal bonds team desk helping cover Puerto Rico’s financial woes since June. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School in May. Before returning to graduate school, she worked at the Times Herald-Record in Middletown, New York, and at weekly newspapers on Long Island. Originally from Newburgh, New York, Jessica likes to practice her golf swing in her spare time.

Carl started this week while Jessica is expected to start in the coming weeks. Please join me in congratulating them both on their new roles.