Kessel among the Investopedia layoffs
Andrew Kessel was among the layoffs at personal finance site Investopedia this week. He had been with the news organization since June 2024 covering stock market trends, company earnings, personal finance topics, and more. Kessel previously worked as a reporter for Proactive and Financial Advisor IQ, a Financial Times publication. He holds a bachelor’s degree from […]
Investopedia reporter Bradley among the layoffs
Investopedia news reporter Jordyn Bradley was among the layoffs this week. She had been with the news organization since February. She started as a general reporter then became a retirement reporter. She wrote breaking news and feature stories on the retirement beat that focused on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, saving for retirement, and the challenges retirees face. […]
Investing reporter Christian among the Bankrate.com layoffs
Investing reporter Rachel Christian was among the layoffs at Bankrate.com last month. She had been with the personal finance site since August 2023. Christian previously spent two years at personal finance site The Penny Hoarder. She also worked as a reporter for the Osceola News-Gazette in Florida and as a community editor for the Mount Vernon Democrat […]
SABEW selects six journalists for personal finance summit
Six journalists were selected for the 2025 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing Personal Finance Summit on Oct. 10 in New York. The fellows will discover how personal finance stories can build trust and illustrate the impact of economic change. They will come away with practical tools and insights to elevate their reporting, including […]
Senior editor Segal among the Bankrate.com layoffs
Senior editor Troy Segal was among the recent layoffs at Bankrate.com. She focused on real estate, homebuying, and homeownership, delving deeply into mortgages, home equity loans, and HELOCs. Before Bankrate.com, Segal worked at Business Insider and Women’s Wear Daily. She also spent seven years at Businessweek as a department editor in personal business and social issues. She […]
Bailie hired as editorial director of Credible
Korrena Bailie has been hired as editorial director of Credible, a personal finance site. She was editor in chief of Forbes Advisor before being laid off in November 2024. She also worked as its consumer finance editor. Previously, she was senior editor at Wirecutter and before that, she was at Credit Karma where she first held […]
How Clements broke through jargon and empty verbiage
Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal writes about the paper’s former personal finance columnist, Jonathan Clements, who died last Sunday at the age of 62. Zweig writes, “When Jonathan started writing for the Journal, those claims weren’t just common. They were treated as gospel, chanted into the ears of every investor by the entire financial industry. “Jonathan […]
Wilson, lead credit cards writer at Bankrate.com, among the layoffs
Benét J. Wilson, the lead credit cards writer at Bankrate.com, was among the layoffs last week. She had been with the company for a year. Wilson previously was a senior editor at The Points Guy and an associate editor at LendingTree. She also was a senior editor at Airport Business magazine and an editor at […]
Clements, longtime WSJ personal finance columnist, dies at 62
Jonathan Clements, a longtime personal finance columnist at The Wall Street Journal, died Sunday at the age of 62 from cancer. Jason Zweig of The Journal writes, “Clements, 62 years old, died in Philadelphia on Sunday, about a year-and-a-half after being diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer. Between 1994 and 2008, he wrote 1,009 […]
Gillespie among the Bankrate.com layoffs
Personal finance reporter Lane Gillespie was among the layoffs last week at Bankrate.com. They had been with the news organization for three years. Gillespie previously was a real estate reporter at Bisnow and a reporter at the Houston Business Journal covering education and retail for the publication. Gillespie also covered restaurants for the publication. Gillespie has also worked […]
