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9fin hires Becker as lead editor

November 9, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Nate Becker

Nathan Becker has been hired by 9fin as a lead editor.

“I think debt is having a moment, for lack of a less cliche term,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “There are so many aspects of it that touch our everyday lives, for one.”

He previously was Sherwood News business editor. Before that, he was the finance editor at The Information.

He previously was at The Wall Street Journal, where he helped lead the paper’s renowned team covering deals and Wall Street. He also ran the breaking news desk at the Journal and first joined Dow Jones in 2008.

Becker was a Knight-Bagehot fellow and got his MBA from Columbia. He holds an undergraduate degree from Truman State University

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