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Canadian Press hires Goodfield as assistant biz editor

Kayla Goodfield

The Canadian Press has hired Kayla Goodfield as assistant business editor.

She will start next week.

She has been at BNNBloomberg in Canada as a digital producer since March 2021.

Goodfield was previously a multiplatform writer for CTV News Toronto. Goodfield has covered several high-profile cases, including the murders of billionaire Toronto couple Honey and Barry Sherman, the beating of Dafonte Miller by an off-duty Toronto cop and the investigation into serial killer Bruce McArthur.

In 2018, Goodfield contributed coverage of the Toronto van attack for CP24.com, which was recognized by RTDNA Canada with the Charlie Edwards Award for Breaking News. She also covered the Toronto Raptors’ championship run and parade in 2019. Prior to joining CTV News Toronto, Goodfield worked as a digital journalist at CP24.

Goodfield attended Ryerson University in Toronto, earning a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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