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 […]
WSJ seeks credit reporter in NYC
The Wall Street Journal¹s Personal Finance bureau is seeking a New York-based reporter to cover consumer credit and banking. The natural candidate will be able to jump from big trend stories to news scoops and write with panache, and have a proven ability to develop deep sources within the industry and among government and consumer-advocacy […]
Ulrich named new host for “Marketplace Money”
American Public Media announced that personal finance expert Carmen Wong Ulrich will be the new host of “Marketplace Money,” its weekend personal finance program. Ulrich will begin with programs airing the weekend of Nov. 2. She replaces Tess Vigeland, who left in November 2012. Since that time, the show has used guest hosts. Ulrich will be […]
Don’t follow Dave Ramsey’s investment advice
Felix Salmon and Susie Poppick write for the latest edition of Money magazine about Dave Ramsey, the personal finance author who has his own radio show and once had a personal finance show on Fox Business Network. Their conclusion: Don’t follow his investment advice. Salmon and Poppick write, “Ramsey seems to be so dismissive of […]
Behind the scenes of WSJ. Money
The third issue of WSJ Money, the Wall Street Journal‘s upscale personal finance magazine, appears Saturday as an insert in the business newspaper. The magazine focuses on investing issues for the high-net worth crowd, with special departments and columns such as “Empire Builder” and “Made of Money” centered around several long-form features written by the […]
Our job is to demystify and explain
Suzanne McGee, who has begun writing a column for The Guardian’s U.S. business section, writes about what business journalists should be doing in their work. McGee writes, “Only a minority of those who write about personal finance will be investigative reporters, digging into topics such as the allegations that Merrill Lynch and other institutions manipulated […]
Nation’s top personal finance reporters named
Tennessee television reporter Don Dare, along with National Public Radio senior editor Uri Berliner and CNNMoney.com personal finance writer Blake Ellis, are being recognized for outstanding reporting on personal finance issues. A story on the website of WATE, the television station where Dare works, states, “The Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and the National […]
Betting against what other personal finance journalists are writing
Jason Zweig of The Wall Street Journal, who earlier this week won a Gerald Loeb Award for personal finance coverage, writes Friday about how he does his job. Zweig writes, “But humans perceive reality in short bursts and streaks, making a long-term perspective almost impossible to sustain – and making most people prone to believing […]
Bloomberg launches personal finance blog
Bloomberg.com has started a personal finance blog called Ventured & Gained. “We’re doing this following the success of our personal finance channel,” said Suzanne Woolley, who is overseeing the blog. “We believe we can weigh in in a lively and insightful way to all manner of issues confronting Americans’ personal balance sheets. We have an […]
