Marketwatch.com seeks personal finance/real estate reporter
MarketWatch seeks an aggressive, Web-savvy reporter who can help 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, but this reporter will focus primarily on the single biggest financial decision most people make in […]
Marketplace seeks senior producer for personal finance
This is personal finance like you’ve never seen it. At “Marketplace,” we believe personal finance coverage should go beyond the broccoli about how to save for retirement, whether to chose a Roth or regular IRA, and how to finance a college education. It’s about how people live money – across cultures, within families and regardless […]
Goodman, former host of “Adam Smith’s Money World,” dies at 83
George Goodman, who hosted the personal finance show “Adam Smith’s Money World” in the 1980s and 1990s, died Friday in Miami at the age of 83. David Henry of Bloomberg News writes, “Goodman continued to carve out his niche in business journalism by giving Americans a grounding in economics and finance through his TV series ‘Adam […]
Oregonian losing personal finance columnist
Personal finance reporter and columnist Brent Hunsberger will be leaving The Oregonian on Dec. 31 to become a financial planner at Silver Oak Advisory Group in Portland. He’ll continue to freelance his weekly “It’s Only Money” column, which he started in November 2008, for the newspaper. “He is a talented guy and a first-rate person,” […]
Chatzky begins writing column for Fortune
Personal finance journalist Jean Chatzky will begin writing a regular column for Fortune.com called “Money Sense From Jean Chatzky.” The first column, about financial bullies, can be found here. Chatzky’s column will run weekly online — but she will be contributing to all platforms — so her column could appear in the print magazine at […]
Kiplinger’s hires Bigda as contributing editor
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and Kiplinger.com have hired Carolyn Bigda, longtime Money magazine reporter, as contributing editor. At Money, Bigda wrote investing pieces on market trends, individual stocks, ETFs and mutual funds for feature and cover stories. Prior to covering the investing beat, she focused on banking, cash investments, consumer credit and debt management for […]
The woman who invented personal finance coverage
Gabrielle Birkner of The Jewish Daily Forward reviews “Sylvia Porter: America’s Original Personal Finance Columnist,” a new book by Iowa State University professor Tracy Lucht on the legendary personal finance columnist. Birkner writes, “In the 1930s and 1940s, she framed her case for women in the workforce in terms of individual liberties and documented how […]
Suze Orman’s brand of personal finance journalism
Adam Auriemma of The Daily Beast writes about CNBC personal finance journalist Suze Orman and the advice she gives. Auriemma writes, “Indeed, Orman’s supposed omniscience — combined with the oratory zeal of a Bible thumper and the manic enthusiasm of a children’s show actor — is the key driver of her success. Money and markets […]
Personal finance reporting can be funny
Brian O’Connor is the syndicated Funny Money columnist from The Detroit News, a Knight-Bagehot fellow from the class of 2001, founding managing editor of Bankrate.com and author of the new humorous personal finance book, “The $1,000 Challenge: How One Family Slashed Its Budget Without Moving Under a Bridge or Living on Government Cheese.” The book […]
Yahoo Finance hires personal finance reporter
Mandi Woodruff, who has covered personal finance news and edited Business Insider’s ‘Your Money’ section for the past two years, is now writing personal finance for Yahoo Finance. In an email to the staff Yahoo Finance editor in chief Aaron Task wrote that Woodruff will “write quick-hit stories on news of the day issues that […]
