Dealreporter covers merger and acquisition deals of listed companies for hedge fund managers to make well-informed decisions. Its Editor, Ed Vinales, recently spoke to Telum Media to share about his current editorial focus and how they use data widely in their news coverage.

"Data could be a news story...We [also] look back and collect, sort, categorise and organise all this data to see whether there is deal activity happening and what sectors are hot. We try to observe patterns in historical, statistical data to generate some insights and predict what might be happening in the future," Ed said.

Watch the full interview with Ed (run time: 9 minutes)