Refinitiv hires Aurissichio to cover middle market loans

Refinitiv has hired Paola Aurissichio to cover the U.S. middle market loan industry, focusing on private credit and deals.

Aurissichio joins from GlobalCapital where she worked for three years covering the U.S. structured finance market and collateralized loan obligations. Her daily coverage included breaking new stories, deal pricings and analysis, market trends, regulatory developments and people moves.

Before moving to the U.S., she worked for six years as a court and criminal reporter at an Italian newspaper, writing about politicians charged with bribes or other crimes and white-collar tax evasion, among other subjects.

She holds an MA in journalism from the Columbia University School of Journalism and a BA in literature, cum laude, from G. D’Annunzio 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.