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Liz spent nine years at The Wall Street Journal, covering M&A, corporate governance, investment banking and capital markets. She joined the Journal in 2013 covering mergers and acquisitions and broke news on some of the biggest corporate tie-ups of all time, including Burger King and Tim Horton's, Dell and EMC, and a hostile bid for Hershey's, her hometown corporate titan. As a senior finance reporter she produced a string of front-page articles and scoops, including on Goldman Sachs’s push into Main Street, the travails of the world’s largest venture capital fund, the foibles of the SPAC boom, and the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on financial markets. In July she will start a new job as business and finance editor at Semafor, a startup publication with global ambitions. She is also the author of a forthcoming book on the pandemic and big business.