NY Times hires Yahoo Finance’s Caval

Valentina Caval

The New York Times has hired Valentina Caval from Yahoo Finance to be a senior producer.

She starts Jan. 6.

At Yahoo Finance, she covered key business news events, including the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Tesla’s going public, and the rise and fall of Sam Bankman Fried. In her last role, she led a team of 20 focused on daily finance news coverage. Caval also launched and created the concept for five new shows at Yahoo, and led on-the-ground production for news coverage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Prior to Yahoo Finance, she worked at “HBO Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel.” Her pieces there included coverage of the devastation Australia’s production of coal is causing to the Great Barrier Reef and the impact Hurricane Harvey had on a small football town in Texas. While at HBO, Caval was part of the team that won an Emmy for outstanding sports news anthology.

A graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2017 on the investigative journalism track with a focus on video, Caval served as a duPont fellow and worked closely with the team at Columbia that organizes and judges the DuPont Awards.

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.