Yahoo Finance hires Friar as front page editor

Karen Friar

Yahoo Finance has hired Karen Friar to be front page editor.

Friar previously was a markets editor for Insider based in London.

She was also managing editor for MLex Market Insider in its London bureau and London bureau chief and a news editor for MarketWatch.com.

Friar also worked at ZDNet in the United Kingdom and for CNET News in San Francisco.

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.