NerdWallet seeks an assistant assigning editor
NerdWallet is looking for an assistant assigning editor with an entrepreneurial spirit. This is a non-managerial role, but successful AAEs may be candidates for future management positions on our content team. To be a successful Assistant Assigning Editor at NerdWallet, you must: Be passionate about helping readers and ensuring that NerdWallet’s articles are consistently engaging, […]
NerdWallet seeks a personal finance writer
NerdWallet is looking for a writer to cover the personal finance choices that millions of Americans grapple with every day. Successful candidates must be able to translate complex topics into conversational articles that frame the answers our audience seeks with the context it deserves. Our content team is 80+ people strong and growing. Topics we […]
Andreessen Horowitz hires NerdWallet’s Leung as executive editor
Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired NerdWallet’s Maggie Leung as executive editor to build its media operation around covering technology and innovation. She had been at NerdWallet, a personal finance site, since October 2013. Margit Wennmachers of Andreessen Horowitz writes: Hiring for this particular position was a super tall order. The list of must-haves is long: […]
NerdWallet acquires NY-based Fundera
NerdWallet has acquired New York City-based Fundera, a company which created a marketplace where small businesses could find loans, allowing them to expand into other areas, including legal services, and like NerdWallet, allow them to provide free financial content. Fundera was co-founded in 2013 by Jared Hecht, who previously co-founded GroupMe. Hecht said in a […]
NerdWallet hires French to cover travel and loyalty reward programs
Sally French has joined NerdWallet as a writer covering the travel industry and writing on loyalty reward programs. Previously, French was a writer at Wirecutter, The New York Times, covering personal finance and travel. Before that, she was a social media editor at MarketWatch. She has also served as a data analyst at Investigative Reporters […]
NerdWallet seeks personal finance writer
NerdWallet is looking for a writer to cover the personal finance choices that millions of Americans grapple with every day. Successful candidates must be able to translate complex topics into conversational articles that frame the answers our audience seeks with the context it deserves. Our content team is 70+ people strong and growing. Topics we […]
Coombes departs NerdWallet to become personal finance coach
Personal finance journalist Andrea Coombes has left NerdWallet to become a personal finance coach. Coombes is now working one-on-one with consumers at the SF LGBT Center to help them reach their money goals. She had joined NerdWallet in 2017 and covered investing and retirement. Before that, Coombes had spent a decade at MarketWatch.com, including two […]
Director of content Spratt departs NerdWallet
Gerry Spratt, director of content for personal finance site NerdWallet, has left the news organization. On LinkedIn, Spratt wrote, “My time at NerdWallet was the most amazing stretch of my career. I was instrumental in scaling the strongest, most versatile content team in the industry and driving incredible business results.” He had been at NerdWallet since […]
NerdWallet’s Richards leaving to teach at Syracuse
Alex Richards, a data reporter and editor at NerdWallet, has been hired by Syracuse University to join its faculty. Richards will primarily teach data journalism. Richards has been at NerdWallet since July 2016 and was originally part of a team devoted to telling consumer finance stories in the public’s interest. He most recently has been […]
LA Times hires Read to be its Seattle reporter
The Los Angeles Times has hired Richard Read, most recently part of the NerdWallet investigations team, to be its Seattle correspondent. In an email to the staff, executive editor Norm Pearlstine wrote: Rich joins us as our Northwest correspondent based in Seattle. Rich spent more than two decades at the Oregonian in Portland, where he won the 1999 […]
