Yahoo Finance hires Semenova to cover markets

Yahoo Finance has hired Alexandra Semenova as a markets reporter. She will start next week. She has been working at MandateWire, a Financial Times publication, covering the asset management industry. Semenova previously held internships with Bloomberg News, NY1 News, Fox Business Network, and Crain’s New York. She also worked as an assignment desk intern at CNBC, at the network’s main newsroom […]

Bloomberg hires Tsekova for cross-asset team in London

Bloomberg News has hired Denitsa Tsekova as a reporter on its cross-asset team in London. She started on Monday. Tsekova  has been a personal finance reporter covering debt management, student loans and job trends at Yahoo Finance. Previously, she interned for Bloomberg News reporting on agriculture, commodities, and companies, and has worked and trained in […]

La Roche leaves Yahoo Finance for You.com

Yahoo Finance correspondent Julia La Roche has left to become head of communications and public relations at You.com. You.com is a private search engine that summarizes the Internet. It recently launched in beta mode. She had been at Yahoo Finance since May 2016. She previously was at Business Insider as a senior finance reporter. La Roche […]

Yahoo Finance pulled from Chinese app store

Yahoo Finance has been pulled by the Chinese App Store after it republished a Bloomberg News article critical of the company’s crackdown of the tech industry, reports Mikey Campbell of Apple Insider. Campbell reports, “The app was purged on Oct. 14, according to Apple Censorship, a website that tracks App Store takedowns and changes. It is […]

Yahoo Finance reporter Udland departs for Titan

Yahoo Finance reporter Myles Udland is leaving the news organization to become a strategist at investment firm Titan Global Management. “I’ll help build out their content operation, working closely with the firm’s research and investment teams to help highlight their process for the masses,” he wrote on Twitter. Udland has been an anchor and reporter for Yahoo […]

Yahoo Finance hires six to bolster reporting

Yahoo Finance has added six new staff members to help it continue to deliver content across all platforms. The new hires are: Taylor Clothier has joined as a booking producer based in New York. She comes from Scoop News Group, where she was a senior producer, speaker engagement. She was also an editorial producer at […]

Yahoo Finance hires Schonberger to cover cryptocurrencies

Yahoo Finance has hired Fox Business journalist Jennifer Schonberger to cover cryptocurrencies. She has been at Fox Business for eight years as its Federal Reserve producer and on-air reporter.  She decides what Fox Business covers from Washington, DC across our daily programing as well as cover the Federal Reserve and economics issues on air. Before […]

Yahoo Finance’s LaRoche on preparing for interviews

Yahoo Finance’s Julia LaRoche spoke with Polina Pompliano of The Profile on how she prepares for executive interviews. Here is an excerpt: How do you prepare for your interviews? I love the preparation process! For some of my interviews, it’s taken me years to land them. I’m persistent, though. When I decide that I want to talk to someone, […]

Yahoo Finance reporter Myers is leaving

Kristin Myers, a senior writer at Yahoo Finance and an anchor of Yahoo Finance Live, is leaving the news organization. Her last day is Friday. “I’m extremely proud of all the work I’ve been able to do and all the stories I’ve been able to tell,” she wrote on Twitter. She hosts the politics-focused 1 […]

Harley-McKeown joins Yahoo Finance UK

Lucy Harley-McKeown has joined Yahoo Finance U.K. on contract, a slightly more full-time role as she was previously working freelance for the outlet. Her work has also appeared in Medium, MSN, Business Insider, The Independent, The Wall Street Journal, The Sun, Daily Express, Wired and more. She was also a news reporter at The Lawyer […]