CNBC.com adds to its staff

Xana Antunes, the executive editor and vice president of CNBC.com, sent out the following staff hires out on Tuesday afternoon:

We have two more people coming aboard, coincidentally both celebrated micro-bloggers (among their many other talents.)

Amy Langfield is joining our Enterprise team as a content editor. She comes to us from NBCNews.com, where she reports and edits stories for the business sections of Today.com and NBCNews.com. Previously, Amy created and ran the NewYorkology website and served as editor, lead reporter and resident photographer. She used the award-winning site and Twitter feed to share everything her audience could possibly want to know about what was going on in New York. It grew into an indispensable guide for the city’s tourism and hospitality industries, as well as for visitors and locals.

Amy took the local route into journalism, rising to become assistant city editor at the LA Daily News. She also spent time in Prague, working for Czechoslovakia’s first English-language newspaper. (She launched its business section.) Amy had stints at Reuters and ABCNews.com, where she reported and edited stories on a broad range of topics, including business, technology, media and travel.

Kelli Grant is coming aboard our Enterprise team as a writer, focused on consumer news. She joins us from MarketWatch.com (formerly SmartMoney.com), where she launched the “Deal of the Day” column in 2005 and built it into one of the site’s most popular features. She cut her teeth as a reporter while in college, reporting part time on the crime and local news beats for The Ithaca Journal and writing feature stories for the Star-Gazette in Elmira, N.Y. After graduating, Kelli learned the money beat as Marshall Loeb’s assistant, ghost writing his “Daily Money Tips” column for MarketWatch and reporting features under her own byline.

Kelli has appeared regularly on both TV and radio, hosted digital video shows and podcasts and has won multiple awards for her writing. She even shared honors a few weeks back with our very own John Carney as one of Time.com’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013.” As if switching jobs was not enough this year — Kelli is also in the process of moving to Fort Lee, N.J. and planning her September wedding. After eight years of car-less city living, I know she will welcome tips from anyone skilled at parallel parking.

I am thrilled to welcome them both to CNBC Digital. Amy starts on Monday, May 20 and Kelli starts on Tuesday, May 28. Both will report to Jeff Nash.