Grocery Dive associate editor Thakker departs

Krishna Thakker

Krishna Thakker, an associate editor at Grocery Dive, has left the Industry Dive publication.

She had been at the publication since May 2018.

Thakker previously interned at Fortune and at TheStreet.com.

She is a graduate of the University of South Carolina, where she majored in journalism and mass communications. While there, she wrote stories for ETV’s Carolina-Money.com on local business community growth, financial literacy, startups, workforce readiness, and technology. She also maintained and promoted Carolina Money’s Twitter page.

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.