Yahoo Finance to launch premium subscription service
Yahoo Finance’s eight-hour video programming will launch on Jan. 7, and it will also start a premium subscription service next year, according to an announcement by its parent company Verizon. The statement says: We put Yahoo Finance everywhere our consumers are with content like Women and Money and Personal Finance features and grew our off-network […]
Yahoo Finance gets standalone app on Apple TV devices
Yahoo Finance is getting a standalone app on Apple TV devices, reports Alex Weprin of Digital News Daily. Weprin reports, “The app comes as Yahoo Finance prepares to significantly increase the amount of live market coverage it produces. In January 2019, Yahoo Finance will produce eight hours of live coverage each business day. That coverage will […]
Axios hires Yahoo Finance’s Rabouin
Axios has hired Dion Rabouin, who will write the new Axios Markets newsletter. He starts Dec. 17. Rabouin comes to Axios from Yahoo Finance, where he anchored “Midday Movers” and served as a global financial reporter. He has experience covering bond, equity and currency markets as well as Treasuries, FX and emerging markets. The newsletter is […]
Yahoo Finance starts ad campaign about its live video push
Yahoo Finance kicked-off a new, multimedia ad campaign on Monday as it prepares to expand its live video programming to eight hours of daily market coverage in January 2019. The commercials, produced by the creative team at Verizon Media Group, feature a line-up of Yahoo Finance’s trusted anchors and reporters as they get ready for […]
Yahoo Finance hires Harding as a producer
Jillian Harding has been hired by Yahoo Finance as a producer. Harding has been working at CBS MoneyWatch, where she was an all-platform journalist writing and producing general assignment business stories. Prior to her work with CBS, Harding spent six years at CNBC, rising through the ranks as a field producer on beats including markets and economics. […]
Yahoo Finance to launch subscription service
Yahoo Finance is launching a subscription service that aims to compete with Bloomberg for the money and attention of retail investors, reports Sara Fischer of Axios. Fischer reports, “What we’re hearing: Yahoo Finance Premium will act as a testing ground for Verizon Media Group (formerly called Oath) to launch more subscription services. Verizon Media Group […]
Yahoo Finance expands to five hours of programming
Yahoo Finance will reach five hours of live programming on Monday as new hires Julie Hyman and Adam Shapiro begin anchoring. Hyman, who came from Bloomberg Television, and Shapiro, who came from Fox Business, will debut as co-anchors of “Midday Movers” at 11:30 a.m. Yahoo Finance now has four daily shows — “Market Movers” from 9 […]
Yahoo Finance hires Hyman as anchor
Yahoo Finance announced that longtime Bloomberg Television staffer Julie Hyman has been hired as an anchor, part of the ongoing video expansion and increased live market coverage. Hyman has covered financial markets for 20 years, spending the bulk of her career at Bloomberg Television. There, she served in a number of roles, most recently as senior […]
Yahoo Finance hires two from TheStreet
Yahoo Finance has lured two editors from TheStreet.com to join the Verizon-owned site, reports Keith Kelly of the New York Post. Kelly writes, “Brian Sozzi, who became executive editor of TheStreet late last year, will be joining Yahoo Finance on Oct. 1, leading coverage of equity markets and the industries that make up those markets, […]
Yahoo Finance hires Shapiro of Fox Business to be an anchor
Yahoo Finance has hired Adam Shapiro of Fox Business Network to be an anchor for its expanding live video operation, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione writes, “CBS’ Lulu Chiang is heading to Yahoo Finance as senior executive producer of live events. She will help scale the Yahoo Finance ‘All Markets Summit’ event franchise, […]
