Burdziak hired by Mergermarket/Dealreporter to cover M&A

Alan Burdziak

Reporter Alan Burdziak has been hired by Mergermarket and Dealreporter to cover mergers and acquisitions in consumer and industrial industries.

He started on Monday.

Burdziak previously was a reporter at ALM Media’s VerdictSearch publication. He wrote about cases, including everything from motor vehicle accidents to wrongful death and civil rights violations to medical malpractice.

Before that, Burdziak worked at the Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune for four years as a public safety reporter.

He is a 2011 graduate from Wayne State 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.