Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC.com hires personal finance writer

Jennifer Barrett, the personal finance editor for CNBC Digital, sent out the following announcement on Thursday morning:

I’m thrilled to welcome Tom Anderson, who joins the personal finance team today. He will be writing and editing. In fact, we’ve already put him to work on his first story. (He may actually have a byline before he has a badge!)
Before joining us, Tom had been a freelance writer and editor, covering personal finance topics for publications ranging from Forbes to Wired and editing finance and accounting newsletters for the business news aggregator SmartBrief. A former Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia University, Tom has also worked as an associate editor at Kiplinger’s and a writer for The Daily (under our own Tom Lowry).
Like me, Tom is a runner, though I’m pretty sure he would kick my butt in any race. He’s currently training for his third marathon, which is about 17 miles more than I’ve ever run consecutively. He’s also an avid reader–especially anything by Michael Lewis or James Ellroy–and a big movie buff.
Tom’s desk is near the west entrance to the newsroom. Please swing by and say hi.

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.