Yahoo Finance adds two journalists
Yahoo Finance announced Friday the hiring of two business journalists. JP Mangalindan has been hired as a senior correspondent at Yahoo Finance, covering tech and business. In this new role he will focus on original reporting and analysis about Silicon Valley companies, people and trends. A journalist with over 10 years of experience, Mangalindan served as […]
Yahoo Finance, Dow Jones websites gain traffic in June; Business Insider falls
Yahoo Finance and the Dow Jones & Co. websites saw gains in readers in June, while Business Insider slumped, according to data from the comScore Multiplatform report for the month. Yahoo Finance remained the No. 1 business and finance website for the month with 75.5 million unique visitors, up from 71.2 million in May. And […]
Yahoo Finance has been redesigned
Yahoo Finance, the No. 1 business news site in terms of visitors, unveiled a redesign on Thursday. The new design features bigger headlines, bigger photos and fewer modules. For example, Yahoo Finance has combined the watch list, portfolios and popular market data such as top gainers and losers into a configurable dashboard where consumers can add, remove […]
Yahoo Finance editor Serwer talks his job
Jordan Valinsky of Digiday interviewed Yahoo Finance editor in chief Andy Serwer about his job and the website’s strategy. Valinsky writes, “The vertical pulled in 71 million U.S. visitors last month, according to comScore. Serwer oversees an editorial staff of 18 people, with plans to hire more. “Serwer joined Yahoo in February 2015 following a 29-year stint at Time […]
Pegoraro: Back writing for the business section
Tech journalist Rob Pegoraro writes about making the switch from Yahoo Tech to Yahoo Finance. Pegoraro writes, “A month into writing for Yahoo Finance, I’m covering most of the same topics and at about the same frequency–with my word count slightly padded by the stock-quote links that are part of the house style at Finance. But a few things have […]
Woodruff joins MagnifyMoney.com as executive editor
Yahoo Finance personal finance writer Mandi Woodruff has been hired by MagnifyMoney.com to be its executive editor. She will start June 15. Woodruff is an alumna of the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia and an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists, the New York chapter of NABJ, the […]
Yahoo Finance hires Fuchs as deputy ME
Erin Fuchs has been hired by Yahoo Finance to be its deputy managing editor. She will work closely with editor-In-chief Andy Serwer and managing editor Sam Ro to oversee how news is presented and delivered to Yahoo Finance’s readers. Her first day will be May 9. Fuchs comes to Yahoo from Business Insider, where she […]
Business Insider’s LaRoche to join Yahoo Finance
Julia La Roche, a senior reporter at Business Insider, has been hired at Yahoo Finance to cover finance. She will start May 2 and will cover Wall Street culture, investing, hedge funds, banks and private equity. She joins Sam Ro, who was a deputy editor at Business Insider but left in February to become Yahoo Finance’s managing editor. Yahoo […]
Yahoo Finance starts video series on the business of sport
Yahoo Finance has launched a new, recurring video segment called Yahoo Finance Sportsbook. [contextly_sidebar id=”YZogGjw70lDHneiMeuSXU2wWD2XufP3W”] At least once a week, reporter Daniel Roberts will examine the biggest business stories in sports, from athlete endorsement deals to brand scandals to product launches, as well as the increasing role of tech in sports, from streaming video to in-stadium […]
Yahoo Finance plans to expand personal finance coverage
Michelle Castillo of CNBC.com writes that Yahoo Finance is part of the company’s future strategy of focusing on just a few web properties. Castillo writes, “Yahoo Finance is rapidly expanding its video offerings and staffing up. It will be growing personal finance coverage, especially since Yahoo has seen interest from a new audience — millennials […]
