Yahoo Finance hires Weissmann to cover consumer affairs

Yahoo Finance has hired Jordan Weissmann to cover consumer affairs, including student debt and health care.

He previously was at Semafor as its Washington editor.

He had been a Slate as a senior editor, focusing on policy, politics, and economics. He also was a senior business and economics correspondent at Slate. Before that, he was an economics blogger and editor for The Atlantic. He has also reported for The National Law Journal.

Weissmann has also interned at The Washington Post, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Cape Times, and The Birmingham News.

Weissmann is a graduate of Northwestern University.

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.