Williams-Grut departs Yahoo Finance for Evening Standard
Oscar Williams-Grut is joining the Evening Standard as city editor. In his new role, he will be driving the desk’s digital expansion, focusing on more tech coverage and overseeing the daily section of the paper. His new role begins in September. Previously, Williams-Grut has worked at the Evening Standard as an online business journalist and […]
Yahoo Finance correspondent Hahm departs
Yahoo Finance journalist Melody Hahm will be joining Harlem Capital in July, helming its community, content and platform. Her first day in her new job will be July 12. She left Yahoo Finance last week. Most recently, she was West Coast correspondent at Yahoo Finance. Before that, she was a senior writer and on-air reporter. […]
Yahoo Finance’s Serwer to receive Bell Award
The New York Financial Writers’ Association announced that Andy Serwer, editor in chief of Yahoo Finance, is the 2020 recipient of the Elliott V. Bell Award, which honors journalists who have made a significant contribution to the field of financial journalism. Serwer is the 45th annual recipient of the award, which is named after NYFWA’s inaugural president, […]
Yahoo Finance UK promotes Williams-Grut and Shaikh to acting co-heads
Yahoo Finance U.K. has named Oscar Williams-Grut and Sajid Shaikh to the role of acting co-heads. Williams-Grut was previously serving as senior city correspondent. Before that, he was a senior reporter at Business Insider. He has also worked as an online business journalist and then as a market reporter at the Evening Standard. Williams-Grut was […]
Ro departs Yahoo Finance for Axios
Sam Ro, managing editor, Yahoo Finance is leaving his post after more than 5 years to join Axios where he will be writing the Markets newsletter. Ro has also served as deputy editor at Business Insider where he led coverage of global markets covering stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies, derivatives, economics and more. He has also […]
What’s next for Yahoo Finance?
Richard Waters, James Fontanella-Khan and Sara Germano of The Financial Times write about what’s next for Yahoo under new ownership, including how Yahoo Finance might change. Waters, Fontanella-Khan and Germano write, “Yahoo Finance, long one of the company’s crown jewels, could present another opportunity to move beyond advertising. Apollo is considering tapping into its huge […]
Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch being sold to Apollo
Apollo Global Management Inc. has agreed to acquire Verizon’s media businesses, which include Yahoo Finance and TechCrunch, in a deal worth $5 billion, reports Micah Maidenberg and Drew FitzGerald of The Wall Street Journal. Maidenberg and Fitzgerald report, “Other suitors previously showed interest in buying off certain pieces of the media unit, which includes websites such as TechCrunch and […]
Verizon looking to sell media business, including TechCrunch and Yahoo Finance
Verizon Communications Inc. is looking to sell its media business, which includes TechCrunch and Yahoo Finance, reports Benjamin Mullin and Miriam Gottfried of The Wall Street Journal. Mullin and Gottfriend report, “Verizon has cut jobs in the unit, and in November agreed to sell its HuffPost news division to BuzzFeed Inc. That followed a 2019 agreement to sell the […]
Yahoo Finance anchor Rogers departs
Yahoo Finance anchor Jennifer Rogers is leaving the news organization. She has been at Yahoo since 2014. Before joining Yahoo Finance, Jen spent more than a decade in television, covering some of the biggest business stories of our time and interviewing a who’s who of business leaders, including Warren Buffett and Elon Musk, at Reuters Insider and […]
Yahoo Finance and Fortune journalists joining Decrypt Media
Yahoo Finance editor at large Daniel Roberts is joining Decrypt Media, which covers cryptocurrency and bitcoin news, as its editor in chief. Fortune journalist Jeff Roberts is joining as executive editor. “I’ve been a fan of the team there since its launch in 2018, can’t wait to help take it to the next level as the go-to […]
