Wang appointed M&A deals editor at Reuters – Talking Biz News

I’m happy to announce that Echo Wang has joined the deals team as editor-in-charge for M&A reporting.

Echo was no stranger to the deals team and previously led Reuters’ IPO coverage. She has already set the bar high in her first week, breaking perhaps the biggest M&A story in history: SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI. She has a long track record of pulling off major scoops, crushing OpenAI’s plans to go public and selling OnlyFans last year.

Her work includes high-stakes business dealmaking and ambitious corporate reporting, including her coverage of TikTok and Grindr during the first Trump administration. Working closely with colleagues across agencies, she helped position Reuters as the leading source on the evolving story of US-China decoupling – work that earned her Reuters’ Reporter of the Year award in 2020. That approach was also evident in her Arm IPO coverage, where she led a series of scoops, behind-the-scenes reporting and market analysis that made Reuters the authoritative source for 2023’s biggest stock market debut.

Echo moved to New York in 2017 with two suitcases and a passion for journalism. She joined Reuters in 2019 through the Overseas Press Club Foundation fellowship program after completing her master’s degree at Columbia University.

She began her career as a travel writer for Lonely Planet from the rolling hills of the Tibetan plateau. She also worked on NPR’s The Indicator podcast and reported on Chinese business for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She holds a master’s degree in communications and comparative literature from Shanghai International Studies University and grew up in a small town outside Shanghai.

When she’s not hunting for deals, you can find Echo in the kitchen cooking up a storm or busy on the tennis court.

Please join me in congratulating Echo on her promotion. I’m curious to see what else we, she and the team, will do together this year.

Kind regards – Dageraad