How Investopedia continues to produce content during the pandemic

Caleb Silver, the editor in chief of Investopedia, spoke with Roben Farzad of the Full Disclosure radio show about how the personal finance site is operating during COVID-19.

Investopedia was among the first online media organizations that moved to a work-from-home operations.

“It turns out, we can do that, and we can do it on a dime,” said Silver. “We have started working from home about a week or two before most major offices did just so we could see if it would work. And it turns out digital publishing and writing content and being a journalist, you can do it from home. It’s better if you can get out and knock on doors. But we can do it…And we can do this very well.”

Silver said that because Investopedia’s offices are in the Times Square area, it will hesitate to bringing its workers back to the office.

“We won’t be in a hurry to get back to work,” he said.

Silver previously worked at CNN, running its business news operation. He also worked at Bloomberg Television.

To listen to the interview, go here.

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.