Fields joins Octus, formerly Reorg, as senior private credit reporter

Dayna Fields has been hired by Octus, formerly known as Reorg, as a senior private credit reporter.

She has been at KBRA Direct Lending Deals for the past nine months covering private equity activity, private credit, and direct lending deals in the middle market.

Fields previously spent seven years as a senior mergers and acquisitions reporter with Mergermarket and Dealreporter.

Fields comes from Talcott Publishing, where she served as managing editor of three food-focused B2B publications, including Chef magazine for restaurants and Fancy Food magazine for retailers.

Fields previously reported for the Chicago Tribune; worked as editor of The Northbrook Tower weekly newspaper; and served as a copy editor for GateHouse News Service. In 2014, she won first place for Best Humorous Column from the National Newspaper Association.

She is a University of Missouri graduate 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.