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Fortune hires Payton for health and wellness beat

L’Oreal Thompson Payton

Fortune magazine has hired L’Oreal Thompson Payton to be a health and wellness reporter.

Payton has been senior editor, mental health and wellness, for YR Media. She is responsible for creating coverage relating to mental health, and social and emotional well-being for the Generation Z population.

Her prior professional experience includes serving as director of communications for OneGoal, director of external affairs and manager of media relations for the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, digital content editor for JET magazine; and various editing and reporting roles with The Baltimore Sun.

Payton holds a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University in Maryland.

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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