Julie MacIntosh, the author of Dethroning the King and an award-winning journalist, led the Financial Times' coverage of the takeover of Anheuser-Busch as its US mergers and acquisitions correspondent. She also covered the fall of Lehman Brothers, the government takeovers of AIG, General Motors, and Chrysler, and the near-collapse of the global banking system while on the mergers beat at the FT and, before that, wrote as a columnist for the newspaper’s highly influential Lex opinion page. MacIntosh, who is now based in Los Angeles, has also worked as a reporter and correspondent for Reuters, and in 2003 was named one of NewsBios’ Top 30 Business Journalists under 30. She won a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in business journalism at Columbia University and earned a master’s in journalism from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism. After receiving the competitive Wiegers Fellowship, she then earned an MBA from Columbia’s Graduate School of Business. She received her undergraduate degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. |
