NY Times hires Dang as editor for personal finance coverage

Mike Dang

Mike Dang, former editor and co-founder of the personal finance site Billfold, has been hired by The New York Times to be an editor on its business news desk.

“I’ll be bringing a lot of my Billfold sensibility to the section, so if you missed that, you’re in luck!” he wrote on Twitter.

Dang was also is the editor-in-chief of Longreads. He also was a senior editor at The Counter, a nonprofit newsroom investigating the forces shaping how and what America eats. Dang was also an editor at Bundle.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cal-Irvine and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of 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.