Lifehacker, a Gizmodo Media Group website, has hired Lisa Rowan as a personal finance reporter.
She starts next month.
Rowan had been a senior reporter and on-air analyst at personal finance site The Penny Hoarder.
At The Penny Hoarder, she wrote personal finance features along with a weekly advice column, Dear Penny, that was syndicated by the Tampa Bay Times.She had been at Penny Hoarder since August 2016.
Rowan co-wrote The Penny Hoarder’s first longform series, The American Nightmare (2018), which explored the long-term impact of the 2008 financial crisis on homeownership and housing access in the United States.
She also co-hosted “Pop Fashion,” a top-rated weekly podcast about the business of fashion and culture. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Racked, CityLab, and the Washington City Paper, among others.
