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...
Forbes has hired Bankrate reporter Kelly Anne Smith as a reporter covering personal finance. She starts at Forbes next week. At Bankrate, she has covered retirement, millennials and money management. Smith has been featured as an...
Florida-based personal finance site The Penny Hoarder is suing New York-based Fluent LLC, the parent of The Smart Wallet, for allegedly stealing story ideas and employees from the company. Lauren Coffey of The Tampa...
Investor’s Business Daily has hired Matt Krantz to become its personal finance and management editor. He previously worked at the newspaper from 1994 to 1999. Krantz is currently a senior financial writer for American...
Diane Harris, the editorial director of personal finance site Considerable, has left her position. “I am so proud of the site we built and stories we’ve run — it’s been a great ride, fittingly...
Syndicated columnist Chuck Jaffe looks at the future of personal finance journalism given the decision by Money magazine’s parent to stop publishing the personal finance title. Jaffe writes, “The democratization of personal-finance journalism demands that consumers...
Refinery29 is the leading media and entertainment company focused on women with a global audience footprint of 249 million across all platforms. Through a variety of lifestyle stories, original video programming, social, shareable content,...
The Wall Street Journal has hired Bourree Lam as its bureau chief of personal finance coverage. She started on Monday. Lam was most recently senior editor of work and money coverage at Refinery29, a leading digital...
Lifehacker, a Gizmodo Media Group website, has hired Lisa Rowan as a personal finance reporter. She starts next month. Rowan had been a senior reporter and on-air analyst at personal finance site The Penny Hoarder....
Alexis Grant, the executive vice president of content for personal finance site The Penny Hoarder is leaving the company at the end of the week. “I’ve so enjoyed building this company over the last...
