The Financial Times has hired Michael Acton to cover Apple.

He has been a senior correspondent for MLex in San Francisco for the past five years five years.

Acton has been in San Francisco since 2020 after working in its Brussels bureau. Before joining MLex, he reported on EU politics as the Financial Times’ Nico Colchester Fellow in Brussels.

Acton has a degree in international relations and politics from the University of Cambridge, and a degree in history and French from University College London and Paris IV Sorbonne.