Debtwire hires Nair as distressed debt reporter

Lavanya Nair

Debtwire has hired Lavanya Nair as a distressed debt reporter.

She is based in New York and is covering industrials, retail and health care, with a specific focus on chemicals, industrials and packaging credits.

Nair previously was a Fitch covering distressed debt and bankruptcy. She also worked at Euromoney Institutional Investor as an Americas reporter.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Lancashire and a master’s degree from New York University.

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.