Ester Bloom, deputy managing editor of CNBC Make It, has left the personal finance site.
Bloom had been with CNBC for nearly nine years, starting in the early days of Make It in 2016 as senior editor. During that time, she ran the Money team, the site’s biggest vertical, as well as Contributors.
In 2019, she helped plan and launch the e-commerce initiative CNBC Select, since spun off into a lucrative standalone property, and came up with its name.
From 2019 to 2022, she served as deputy managing editor of the personal finance site Grow, a collaboration between CNBC and the financial wellness company Acorns. She oversaw a team of 22 and grew audience 6,000% in three years. In 2022, she returned to Make It as deputy managing editor, overseeing day-to-day editorial operations. She helped the site hit new traffic records and branch out into online courses, live events, and TV.
She was named a Future Digital Leader by the NBC News Group in 2022 and received the Igniting Potential award for excellence in mentorship from Big Brothers Big Sisters NY in 2023.
Previously, she was an editor at personal finance site The Billfold, a contributing writer to The Atlantic, and a consultant for financial institutions. Her work has appeared in publications such as Slate, Salon, New York Magazine’s Vulture, Flavorwire, the Nation, Talking Points Memo, Dame Magazine and Refinery 29. She has been interviewed on MSNBC, MTV.com, HuffPost Live, WPIX 11 Morning News, the Geraldo Rivera Show, Bitch Magazine’s Popaganda podcast, Vice’s The Business of Life, and Slate’s United States of Debt podcast.
She also spent four years working in high-level communications, development and programs at an arts-and-culture nonprofit in NYC.
Bloom is an Honors graduate of Swarthmore College, where she received a creative writing award. She has received writing fellowships and residencies in Europe and the U.S., as well as the Dogwood Literary Creative Non-Fiction Prize, and she was a Grand Winner of the NPR game show “Ask Me Another.”
