Teichert hired as North America ME for Mergermarket, Dealreporter parent

Erica Teichert

Erica Teichert has joined ION Analytics to lead a team of reporters and editors and develop coverage for its mergers and acquisitions-focused news sites, including Mergermarket, Dealreporter, Activistmonitor and PaRR.

She will manage the North America team for the global brands.

Teichert previously served as the director of audience for New York Daily News. Before that, she was managing editor, digital for Modern Healthcare.

Her career has focused on content strategy in business journalism and using data and analytics to improve news judgment and better serve targeted audiences. Before Modern Healthcare, she served as a court reporter and the founding D.C. bureau chief for Law360. As a reporter, she has covered health care, law, antitrust and financial regulations.

She has a BA in communications with a print journalism emphasis from Brigham Young 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.