Executive VP of content Grant leaving Penny Hoarder

Alexis Grant

Alexis Grant, the executive vice president of content for personal finance site The Penny Hoarder is leaving the company at the end of the week.

“I’ve so enjoyed building this company over the last five years!” wrote Grant on LinkedIn. “I can’t wait to watch our amazing leadership team and staff continue to grow the brand. While I will truly miss working with this team, I’m looking forward to some rest.”

The Penny Hoarder laid off some of its editorial staff last month.

Grant previously was the executive editor of Penny Hoarder, based in Washington, until early 2018. She plans to move her family back to the DC area after moving to Florida, where Penny Hoarder is headquartered.

She was the founder and innovator in chief of Socialexis, a blog management company that was acquired by the parent of Penny Hoarder.

Before that, she was careers editor of US News & World Report and a reporter for the Houston Chronicle.

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.