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The Messenger hires Reis, Howley for personal finance

Helen Reis

News startup The Messenger has hired Helen Reis to be its personal finance editor and Kathleen Howley to be a personal finance writer.

Reis most recently was at The Balance, a personal finance website owned by Meredith, as senior news editor.

She also worked at Bloomberg for 11 years, including time as editorial director of the content syndication group and as team leader for U.S. insurance coverage.

Kathleen Howley

Howley has been contributing to Forbes.com for the last five years. She previously was editor at large  and real estate editor for HousingWire.

Howley also spent 15 years at Bloomberg covering economy, real estate, investing, mortgages and personal finance, among other topics.

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.

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