Dayna Fields Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, United States

New York/Chicago

Seasoned finance journalist covering private equity activity, private credit, and direct lending deals in the middle market.

Los Angeles

I interview CEOs and CFOs of the world's largest food & beverage companies, outlining their successes, challenges and future growth plans. I also break a bit of M&A news, here and there (IE Kraft buys Home Chef; Johnny Was for sale; Coca-Cola passes on Suja Life). I have an expertise in the food & beverage sector with an overall focus on consumer packaged goods, beauty and apparel as well as gaming & leisure, including hotel chains and casinos. *If you know of any good people or companies for me, email: dayna.fields@acuris.com

River North, Chicago

As managing editor, I oversee all four titles owned by Talcott Publishing: Chef magazine, Fancy Food magazine, Giftware News magazine and Baby & Kids magazine. I plan the content, layout and art for all four titles; assign stories to freelancers and staff; run editorial meetings; edit all content for AP Style, grammar and punctuation; and, of course, write my own articles and conduct interviews. Duties outside of the office include attending and covering industry trade shows throughout the country; networking and maintaining industry relationships; recruiting sources that would make for great stories; and recruiting new, talented staff to our team.

Greater Chicago Area

As a leading local government reporter, I covered breaking news, business profiles, event coverage, restaurant features and more for The Northbrook Star and other suburban Pioneer Press weekly newspapers, now owned by Chicago Tribune.

Northbrook, Ill.

Plans and executes a weekly three-section, 40-page newspaper while producing four to six original stories each week while managing a team of freelance reporters and photographers. Also responsible for the paper's social media presence and website upkeep. Headlines and captions all stories and photos, and edits the entire paper for accuracy, AP Style, grammar and punctuation.* Awards: 1st Place, Best Humorous Column, National Newspaper Association -- "Getting back in the saddle at spin class"

Downers Grove, Ill.

- Copy editor for the company's Nationally Syndicated News Service, serving its more than 500 local newspapers and websites. - Nationalized daily local news stories with edits and headlines to appeal to a national US audience.- Selected newsworthy stories and videos to syndicate to more than 500 newspaper websites.- Planned and proofed daily lifestyle broadsheets for grammar, spelling and AP Style.- Edited submitted multimedia content such as video and audio from reporters to publish online.- Increased page views with SEO-optimized content and taught online SEO tactics to field reporters and editors across the US.- Contributed weekly posts to a blog on AP Style and a blog on implementing SEO in journalism.

SEO copy writer responsible for producing dozens of search-engine-optimized blog posts per week for a variety of companies and industries.

- 9-month assignment covering the Enterprise beat, copy desk and experimental hyper-local journalism.- Completed 30 articles and three multimedia projects in a transitioning Web-first environment.