Investing.com launches personal finance website Allrates.com
Investing.com has launched a personal finance site called Allrates.com that will include editorial content. The editor in chief is Rebecca Greig, the former weekend editor at Newsweek magazine. Greig was also the international editor at International Business Times, where she managed a team of correspondents all over the globe and reported on the Middle East and […]
Investopedia CEO Siegel becomes Meetup CEO
David Siegel, the chief executive officer of personal finance site Investopedia, has been hired to be the chief executive officer of MeetUp, reports Jordan Cook of TechCrunch. Cook writes, “Siegel hails from Investopedia, where he served as CEO for three years, tripling the company’s revenue and doubling its traffic in that period. Before his time at Investopedia, […]
Coverage: Mortgage rates hit a seven-year high
Mortgage rates are at their highest levels since April 2011 as Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year fixed-rate average jumped to 4.90 percent with an average 0.5 point. Kathy Orton of The Washington Post had the news: The 19-basis-point jump (a basis point is 0.01 percentage point) was the largest one-week spike in the 30-year rate […]
Consumer Reports is headed to TV with NBC show
Consumer Reports will debut of its first-ever network television show on NBC next month. The show, called “Consumer 101,” will be a weekly, half-hour program that goes behind the scenes of the nonprofit organization to give people the information they need to make everyday decisions and tips to get more out of the products and […]
Kiplinger hires Waggoner as senior associate editor
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance has hired longtime business journalist John Waggoner as senior associate editor. Waggoner will be a writer, primarily, as part of the investment team at Kiplinger that includes Nellie Huang, Ryan Ermey and Jeff Kosnet. “I’m really pleased to be at Kiplinger’s, which is dedicated to giving straight, unbiased information to investors of all stripes,” […]
Q&A: How Callaway has turned around TheStreet.com
David Callaway is the chief executive officer of TheStreet.com, a financial news company launched in the 1990s. He joined TheStreet in 2016 after the company had experienced years of losses and increased competition for readers of news about the stock market and investing. In the past two years, Callaway has overhauled its operations, laying off […]
Motley Fool seeks SEO editor and operations coordinator
As a company, The Motley Fool’s mission is to “Help the world invest — better.” Here at Fool.com, we help spread the word to millions of people each month by publishing hundreds of articles each week to our award-winning website. Whether it’s analyzing the latest earnings reports or helping investors find the next home run stock, our content is designed […]
The Motley Fool seeks editor analysts
As a company, The Motley Fool’s mission is to “Help the world invest — better.” Here at Fool.com, we help spread the word to millions of people each month by publishing hundreds of articles each week to our award-winning website. Whether it’s analyzing the latest earnings reports or helping investors find the next home run […]
Personal finance reporting winners are announced
The Radio Television Digital News Association and the National Endowment for Financial Education have announced the winners of the 2018 RTDNA/NEFE Award for Personal Finance Reporting. The winners are: The radio winner is Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst, CBS News Radio Network for Jill on Money. Schlesinger hosts a radio call-in program offering financial advice. She offers […]
MarketWatch.com seeks a personal finance reporter
MarketWatch.com seeks a reporter for its personal finance team who can filter the news of the day through a single question: ‘What does this mean for me and my money?’ It’s what readers of every news story wonder on some level, and in a financial climate with boundless opportunity for bad decision making, answering it […]
