Lauren Hirsch is a financial journalist, currently reporting for The New York Timesfrom CNBC in 2020, covering deals and the biggest stories on Wall Street. She helped lead the The Times's coverage of Elon Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. She also and broke news of the $11 billion leverage buyout of Dunkin' Brands and JetBlue's $3.6 billion bid for Spirit Airlines.Prior to joining the NYT, Hirsch was a financial reporter at CNBC, where she covered the cross-section of business and policy. Before that, she was a mergers and acquisitions team leader at Reuters, focusing on consumer and retail deals.Hirsch received her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University and her M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.