Reuters Legal hires Jackson to cover M&A

Sierra Jackson

Reuters Legal has hired reporter Sierra Jackson to cover mergers and acquisitions.

She has spent the past year at Law360 as a general assignment reporter.

Jackson covered daily news stories and occasional features about M&A, private equity, venture capital, asset management, real estate, initial public offerings and other capital market and finance happenings.

Before Law360, she worked at NBC Universal as an overnight weekend editor for the NBC-owned television stations.

She holds a bachelor’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.