Bankrate’s Tepper joins Wirecutter

Taylor Tepper

Bankrate.com reporter Taylor Tepper has joined tech news site Wirecutter as a senior reporter.

Tepper joined Bankrate last May to cover financial planning and topics such as retirement savings, Social Security and health care costs.

He previously worked for four years for Money.com and Money magazine, where he covered an array of financial topics, including credit cards, banking, investing and the numerous financial tools people use to build their wealth.

He’s also worked for NPR’s “Planet Money” and Bloomberg News.

Tepper holds an undergraduate degree from New York University and a master’s degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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.