Categories: OLD Media Moves

Times biz reporter de la Merced moving to San Fran

Michael de la Merced, a business reporter for The New York Times and its Dealbook website, is moving cross country to work out of its San Francisco bureau.

He starts on the West Coast on Tuesday.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, the New York Times business columnist who founded Dealbook, told Talking Biz News:

He’s going to continue to cover everything he’s done here for DealBook from there, perhaps with an added dose of West Coast news too. He’s one of my early partners in the DealBook franchise and he’s responsible for a HUGE part of its success. He’s one of the most talented people I know. I’ve sat next to him for the last 9 years, so selfishly I’m going to miss seeing him every day, but I’m thrilled for him and what he’s going to be doing for us from the other coast.

De la Merced has covered Wall Street and finance for the Times and Dealbook since April 2006. Among his main coverage areas are mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy/restructuring, private equity and white-collar crime.

He joined The Times in 2006. A New York native, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Emory University in 2003 and a master’s degree in journalism from New York University in 2005.

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.