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Mergermarket hires Fields as senior reporter

Dayna Fields

Dayna Fields has been hired as a senior reporter with Mergermarket and Dealreporter.

Fields comes from Talcott Publishing, where she served as managing editor of three food-focused B2B publications, including Chef magazine for restaurants and Fancy Food magazine for retailers.

In her role, she cultivated extensive contacts within the food sector and developed expertise in forecasting national food trends.

A Chicago native, Dayna has previously reported for the Chicago Tribune; worked as editor of The Northbrook Tower weekly newspaper; and served as a copy editor for GateHouse News Service. In 2014, she won first place for Best Humorous Column from the National Newspaper Association.

She is a University of Missouri graduate in journalism.

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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