Profile
Anousha Sakoui is Mergers and Acquisitions Editor for Europe, Middle East & Africa at Reuters based in London. She leads a team breaking news on dealmaking and analysing the most important trends in finance.
Previously she was an entertainment industry writer for the Los Angeles Times, covering topics including labor and litigation in Hollywood. She was part of the team that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news for work covering the tragic shooting on the “Rust” film set. She was also recognized for her feature writing by the Los Angeles Press Club in 2023.
She has over 20 years reporting for the world’s leading news organisations, including leading deals coverage at the Financial Times where her scoops included Liberty Global’s $20bn acquisition of Virgin Media; Freeport's $60bn combination with Plains and McMoran Exploration.; Twitter’s private fundraising with Blackrock and China’s first investments in UK infrastructure. She also broke news about the financial crisis for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal in London and had award winning stories on the hack of Sony Pictures at Bloomberg News in LA.
She got her start in business news at the BBC and has a Masters of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, before which, she studied at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle.
TV Appearances:
ABC, BBC, CBS NEWS, CNN, Cheddar News, Channel 4 News, PBS, Sky News.
Radio Appearances:
BBC World Service, KPCC, BBC Radio 5 Live, RTÉ 1.