CNBC hires Field to cover tech

Hayden Field

CNBC has hired Morning Brew reporter Hayden Field to cover technology.

She will start April 24.

Field has been reporting and writing for Morning Brew’s Emerging Tech Brew. Previously, Field was covering artificial intelligence and the people and power of technology at Protocol. Prior to joining Protocol, Field was an associate editor at Entrepreneur.

She has also worked as an artificial intelligence reporting fellow for National Press Foundation. Field was also reporter and lead reporter at Jean Chatzky. She has also worked freelance for Refinery29 Inc., and served as travel editor at The Daily Meal.

Currently, her freelance work is also appearing in OneZero, Wired U.K., MIT Technology Review, Digital Trends, Fortune magazine, Atlanta magazine and more.

Field is a B.A. in journalism and theatre from The University of Georgia.

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.