Venessa Wong, deputy business and tech editor at BuzzFeed, is returning to reporting and will now cover money and how it’s spent. On LinkedIn, Wong wrote, “I’m interested in student loans, housing, childcare, credit...
Yahoo! Finance has hired award-winning journalist Janna Herron to lead its personal finance coverage. Herron joins the organization from USA Today, where she covered personal finance and real estate. Herron has also written for...
Syndicated personal finance columnist Chuck Jaffe writes about how Consumers Digest has still not paid freelancers — including himself — who wrote for the publication the money that it owes them. Jaffe writes, “Not wanting to...
Gerry Spratt, director of content for personal finance site NerdWallet, has left the news organization. On LinkedIn, Spratt wrote, “My time at NerdWallet was the most amazing stretch of my career. I was instrumental in...
Syndicated personal finance columnist Chuck Jaffe writes about a fictitious personal finance expert called “Patricia Russell” who convinced multiple business journalists to include her in stories. Jaffe writes, “She was cited in articles by...
Fox26 consumer reporter Emily Akin officially announced her retirement Monday, reports Houston Chronicle reporter Marcy de Luna. De Luna reports, “‘I started in radio in 1975 while I was in college,’ Akin told Chron.com....
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...
