Dow Jones Newswires names new wealth management reporter

Kevin Noblet, managing editor of wealth management at Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday:

I’d like to officially welcome Ruthie Ackerman to the wealth management coverage team. She joined us this week to help bolster our practice management coverage.

Ruthie comes to us from Sourcemedia, where she has worked since December 2009, editing and writing several stories a day on a range of personal finance and wealth management topics. She helped that company revamp discussion boards, launch a video channel and create a web site for women financial advisers. She previously worked at Forbes.com for two years.

Ruthie graduated from Boston University and received her Master’s in Journalism at New York University. She professes no attachment to either city’s baseball team, but we’re very happy she’s here anyway.

She received a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting fellowship in 2007 for which she produced and directed a short documentary on the rehabilitation of Liberian youth that premiered on Foreign Exchange. Her reporting from the project was also featured in The Nation, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and CSIS Policy Forum.