Anousha Sakoui Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

I lead a team of reporters writing about dealmaking across Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Los Angeles, California

Part of the Company Town team, my role was to write about issues facing workingHollywood, labor unions and litigation. I produced features and breaking news, including a Column One about struggles by film crews to bring diversity to unions. which was won best Entertainment News/Feature in the LA Press Club Southern California Journalism awards. I wrote about the firstpotential strike by crews in the U.S and wrote about the Rust filmshooting investigation. That work was recognized by the 2022 Pulitzer Prize committeein the Breaking News category.

Los Angeles, California

I dramatically increased the amount of news-breaking on this beat at Bloomberg,including on how technology changed the media industry and Hollywood. I wrote features for Businessweek Magazine on topics such as changes to Hollywood’sfinancing sources and the changing landscape of distribution, as well as the growingimportance of China. I co-produced a podcast and Facebook show on how movie-goingand entertainment consumption is changing• I revealed how major Hollywood studios were looking to cut the exclusivitytheaters have over new movies — a critical shake-up. I followed this with adrumbeat of news about Premium Video on Demand, which remained a concernfor the exhibition industry.• I broke a string of stories as lead reporter on the cyber attack at Sony Pictures in2014, including plans for a merger with Lionsgate. This led to an award by the LAPress Club.• M&A scoops include AMC Entertainment’s acquisition of Carmike to form thebiggest cinema chain in the US; Miramax sale to Qatar’s BeIn; Lionsgate’s bid tobuy Starz in 2016; 21st Century Fox’s plans to thwart Sinclair Broadcast’’s bid forTribune Media.• Revealed Apple’s first movie deal for its video service and roll out plans.

London, United Kingdom

FINANCIAL TIMES // 2011 - 2014Global M&A CorrespondentLeading the FT’s deal reporting globally. Working with journalists across the paper tobreak news of multi-billion dollar takeovers, as well as cover trends in banking.• Scoops included Liberty Global’s $20bn acquisition of Virgin Media; Freeport's$60bn combination with Plains and McMoran Exploration; China’s firstinvestments in UK infrastructure and its withdrawal from plans to invest in UKnuclear power.• I wrote full broadsheet page features, analysis and columns on M&A.FINANCIAL TIMES // 2008 - 2011Capital Markets Correspondent.I focused on making complex financial stories, and those involved, accessible andrelevant to a broad range of readers. I profiled secretive bankers and investors in theworld of distressed assets;• Scoops included: the closing of Woolworths, one of the first high-profileretailers to collapse after the financial crisis; stories on the $24bn restructuringof Dubai World; and restructuring of debt-laden companies from the pre-crisisbuyout boom such as Citigroup’s fight to control EMI.• I revealed how Goldman Sachs tried to unwind a $50bn structured investmentvehicle - one of the complex financial entities that fueled the credit bubble.• News and analysis on Greece’s failing ability to sell bonds and how financialwizardry was employed to help restructure its sovereign debt.

London, United Kingdom

Based in London writing for both Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal. I changed the way Dow Jones Newswires covered credit markets, shifting fromreporting solely on bond issues to broader corporate stories and linked up with therest of the newsroom to break bigger stories. I was awarded a short placement inNew York in recognition of my work and an internal award for my reporting onEurotunnel.• I led the competition on news about the decade-long restructuring ofEurotunnel• First to report that Northern Rock, nationalized during the crisis, would have tobe supported for many more years by tax-payers than initially predicted.Collaborated with WSJ colleagues to reveal how banks were tapping intoemergency funding and reveal the first hedge funds hit by the crisis.

London, United Kingdom