Yahoo Finance hires Smith as anchor and reporter

Brad Smith

Yahoo Finance has hired Brad Smith as an anchor and reporter.

Smith has been an anchor at Cheddar.

He was previously a social producer and host at the Nasdaq Stock Market where he conducted over 200 live interviews with executives and business icons from the world’s largest brands, across every sector.

While at Nasdaq, Smith strategized and executed go-to-market campaigns for companies prior to their Initial Public Offering.

He is a Pennsylvania native who graduated with a B.S. degree in business administration from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa., where he also held a scholarship for music performance.

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.