Personal finance editor, writer have left CNBC

The personal finance editor for CNBC.com and a personal finance writer who joined the business news network earlier this year have both left in the past month.

Jennifer Barrett, the personal finance editor, had joined in 2014 while writer Tom Anderson had joined in February.

Barrett was previously senior vice president and editor in chief at DailyWorth, a financial media company targeting women. The co-author of two personal finance books, Barrett has written about financial topics for several national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Worth, Money, and Newsweek, where she was a staff writer and editor from the fall of 2001 until June 2008.

She began her career in financial journalism at Dow Jones in 1999, writing the foreign exchange column for the Wall Street Journal, and went on to cover business for the joint newsroom of TheStreet.com and The New York Times before joining Newsweek.

Anderson is now content manager for CommonBond.

Before joining CNBC, Anderson 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, Anderson has also worked as an associate editor at Kiplinger’s and a writer for The Daily.