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Michael J. de la Merced is a business reporter for The New York Times and DealBook, The Times’s daily report on the intersection of business and public policy. Over two decades at The Times, he has covered start-ups — including the leading A.I. companies — their backers and the policymakers seeking to shape them, as well as landmark mergers and the 2008 financial crisis.
Michael is based in London, and previously worked in New York and San Francisco. He has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and the Society of Publishers in Asia, and holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master’s degree in journalism from New York University.