Modern Retail hires Daniels as a senior reporter

Melissa Daniels

Modern Retail, a Digiday publication, has hired Melissa Daniels as a senior reporter.

She has been a digital media consultant and communications manager for Life to Rise, a Coachella Valley nonprofit.

Daniels was previously a business reporter for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California. She previously worked at Report for America and spent two years at Law36o in its Los Angeles bureau.

Daniels also covered transportation and state government for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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.