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Yahoo Finance hires eight editorial staffers

Yahoo Finance has hired eight new staffers for its editorial staff.

They are:

  • McKenzie Stratigopoulos joined Yahoo Finance as the producer of  “The Ticker.” For the past two years, Stratigopoulos was a producer at the Fox Business Network, most recently working as the line producer of “Mornings with Maria.”

  • Meghan Fitzgerald joined Yahoo Finance as an associate producer. Previously, Fitzgerald worked as a booker/producer for Fox News Channel.

  • Bridgette Webb started recently as an associate producer, having spent the past year and a half at Cheddar. Previously, Webb was a segment producer for Bloomberg Television.

  • Alexandra Canal joins Yahoo Finance as an associate producer. She joins the team from “PEOPLE Now,” PEOPLE.com’s daily digital live show.

  • Grete Suarez joins Yahoo Finance as an associate producer. Suarez was previously a segment producer at Fox Business’ “Cavuto: Coast to Coast.”

  • Devin Southard comes from Envision Networks where she was the senior booker and producer for morning drive radio shows across the country. At Yahoo Finance, Southard is a segment producer focusing on guest booking across multiple programs.

  • Sarah Smith joins the team as a segment producer. For the past two years, Smith was a production assistant at “The Today Show.”

  • Marabia Smith is now a segment producer for “On the Move.” Smith was previously a broadcast associate for CBS This Morning.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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