How personal finance site NerdWallet got its start
Tom Huddleston Jr. of CNBC Make It writes about Tim Chen, the cofounder and CEO of personal finance website NerdWallet, which sees 10 million monthly visitors and is valued at more than $500 million. Huddleston writes, “Chen says he drew on his own finance experience and still it took him, a professional, a week of […]
TheStreet launches Retirement Daily
TheStreet.com announced Wednesday the launch of Retirement Daily, a subscription-based service for those planning for and living in retirement. Retirement Daily will be edited by Robert Powell and will cover retirement-related news and provide analysis of investments, insurance products and research studies. “With so many changes in tax laws, estate planning, insurance and financial regulations, we wanted to create […]
“Expert” quoted in personal finance stories doesn’t exist
An expert in student loan refinancing quoted in the past year by CNBC and Washington Post personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary is a creation of a student loan refinancing company and doesn’t exist, report Dan Bauman and Chris Quintana of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Bauman and Quintana report, “Drew Cloud’s story was simple: He […]
HuffPost hires Bond as personal finance reporter
Casey Bond has been hired by HuffPost as a reporter specializing in personal finance. She starts April 30 and will be based on Los Angeles. Bond was editor-in-chief of personal finance site GOBankingRates for several years, and she was the managing editor at Student Loan Hero. Her work has been published in Business Insider, US News […]
Business Insider hires Bloomberg’s Campbell, Newsweek’s Haltiwanger
Alyson Shontell, the U.S. editor in chief at Business Insider, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday afternoon: Hi everyone, The Business Insider newsroom is about to get stacked. Dakin Campbell, one of the best finance reporters in the world, is joining us from Bloomberg. He spent a decade there covering Goldman Sachs and investment […]
Notte leaving TheStreet.com after nearly nine years
Jason Notte, who has written for TheStreet.com since 2009, is leaving the online publication. His last day is Thursday. He hopes to announce his new position soon. Notte has been at various times a personal finance reporter, columnist, beer industry writer and sports industry writer for TheStreet. He started in its Boston bureau as a […]
How a biz reporter sued Consumers Digest and won
Debra Borchardt writes about how she sued Consumers Digest for nonpayment for an article she wrote for them and eventually was paid. Borchardt writes, “I won the judgment and notified him and still, I heard nothing. The court gives you a sheet with your options if the other party doesn’t pay. My option was a ‘Garnishment […]
Remembering one of Sylvia Porter’s ghostwriters
Beth Kobliner writes about Lydia Ratcliff, who recently died and was a ghostwriter for well-known personal finance columnist Sylvia Porter for decades. Kobliner writes, “What Ratcliff and I shared was a job. We were both ghostwriters for Sylvia Porter, the first woman—in fact, the first person—to write about personal finance for middle-class families. Ratcliff died last week at age […]
PBS starts podcast for 50 and older workers
PBS’ Next Avenue, a site for people over the age of 50, just launched its first podcast — “Your Next Avenue” on work and careers after 50. Shayla Stern, director of editorial and content for Next Avenue at Twin Cities PBS, writes, “We call the free podcast Your Next Avenue and it’s being hosted by […]
Kiplinger seeks senior investment writer
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, a national magazine that has been advising individuals for over 70 years, seeks a senior investment writer. The writer who is hired for this position should have at least five years of experience writing about investments, including general market conditions and forecasts as well as specific stocks, bonds, mutual funds and exchange-traded […]
