USA Today has hired Jessica Menton to cover personal finance and the financial markets. Menton will be starting this week according to her tweet. Prior to joining USA Today, Menton was working at The...
The Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc. seeks an experienced reporter to write personal finance and lifestyle features on all facets of planning for and living in retirement. Our subscribers want impartial, timely information and advice on...
CBS Moneywatch has hired Khristopher Brooks, a reporter at Newsday. Brooks, who had been covering town government for Newsday, will cover economic disparities for the personal finance website. “It’s a new beat, and I’m eager...
Venessa Wong, deputy business and tech editor at BuzzFeed, is returning to reporting and will now cover money and how it’s spent. On LinkedIn, Wong wrote, “I’m interested in student loans, housing, childcare, credit...
Yahoo! Finance has hired award-winning journalist Janna Herron to lead its personal finance coverage. Herron joins the organization from USA Today, where she covered personal finance and real estate. Herron has also written for...
Syndicated personal finance columnist Chuck Jaffe writes about how Consumers Digest has still not paid freelancers — including himself — who wrote for the publication the money that it owes them. Jaffe writes, “Not wanting to...
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...
Syndicated personal finance columnist Chuck Jaffe writes about a fictitious personal finance expert called “Patricia Russell” who convinced multiple business journalists to include her in stories. Jaffe writes, “She was cited in articles by...
Fox26 consumer reporter Emily Akin officially announced her retirement Monday, reports Houston Chronicle reporter Marcy de Luna. De Luna reports, “‘I started in radio in 1975 while I was in college,’ Akin told Chron.com....
Malcolm Berko, the syndicated financial advice columnist whose work has appeared for years in newspapers across the country, has died. A story on the Columbian website states, “AM Syndication, which has distributed Berko’s column...
