Penny Hoarder is suing The Smart Wallet parent
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 Bay Business Journal writes, “Fluent LLC oversees The Smart Wallet website which, like The Penny Hoarder, is a personal financial website […]
Investor’s Business Daily hires Krantz
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 Funds, a Capital Group company, specializing on topics for high net worth investors and registered investment advisors. Prior to joining Capital […]
Harris, other editorial staffers, leave personal finance site Considerable
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 ending in a surge of traffic for April,” she wrote on Twitter. The site is examining a new content strategy. In […]
What’s the future of personal finance journalism?
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 scrutinize news sources – and the motives of those sources – with the same detail they apply to the advice itself. […]
Refinery29 seeks senior work and money editor
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, and live experiences, Refinery29 provides its audience with the inspiration and tools to discover and pursue a more independent, stylish, and […]
WSJ hires Lam as personal finance bureau chief
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 publication for millennial women. She assigned and edited trending, service, and reported pieces on personal finance, career, and technology. She also worked with […]
Lifehacker hires Rowan as personal finance reporter
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. At The Penny Hoarder, she wrote personal finance features along with a weekly advice column, Dear Penny, that was syndicated by the […]
Executive VP of content Grant leaving 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 five years!” wrote Grant on LinkedIn. “I can’t wait to watch our amazing leadership team and staff continue to grow the […]
NerdWallet’s Jackson joins CNBC Acorns
Anna-Louise Jackson has been hired by CNBC Acorns as a senior writer based in New York. Jackson previously was a lead writer for NerdWallet, focused on the site’s investing content. Before that, she worked at Bloomberg for more than six years as a U.S. stocks reporter, economics reporter and ranking analyst. She began her journalism […]
Wirecutter seeks a deputy editor for personal finance
Wirecutter, the product recommendation arm of The New York Times Company, is seeking an imaginative and experienced editor to steer its personal finance vertical, Wirecutter Money. As deputy editor, you’ll be charged with conceiving and executing Wirecutter Money’s editorial strategy and dramatically growing readership. You’ll lead coverage planning and content conception with zeal and creativity, […]
