Globe and Mail hires Fong as deputy personal finance editor

James Cowan, investing and personal finance editor at The (Toronto) Globe and Mail, sent out the following announcement:

We’re thrilled to announce that April Fong is joining Report on Business as deputy personal finance editor. She starts Feb. 3, reporting to investing and personal finance editor James Cowan.

 April joins us from The Logic, where she has spent the past four years first as deputy managing editor and then as executive editor. There she helped oversee The Logic’s editorial strategy and expansion. She led The Logic’s award-winning daily newsletter, The Logic Briefing, and launched The Logic’s editorial board, while building a reputation as a champion of newsroom diversity and inclusion. April has also been a public face for The Logic as a frequent moderator and speaker at live journalism events. And she has nurtured budding reporters as an instructor of business journalism at Carleton University.

 And that’s just in the past few years of April’s two decades as a journalist, which has taken her from Canada to China and back, and included stints at BNN Bloomberg, the Financial Post and the China Economic Review. As head of BNN Bloomberg’s digital news team, she oversaw the 2018 rebranding of the news site following the partnering of Business News Network and Bloomberg.

 Now, The Globe’s expanded personal finance group will benefit from April’s leadership and wealth of experience. “I’m looking forward to joining the extremely talented Report on Business team and being a part of its leadership,” she says. “With so much uncertainty in the economy and affordability challenges on everyone’s minds, I’m ready to work hard to help Canadians make sense of their finances and money.”

 Away from the newsroom, April’s passions include her two children, good dim sum, and (tragically) the Toronto Raptors. (Wondering if she’d trade her go-to shumai for a decent shooting guard.)

 Please join us in welcoming April.