Poppick leaving CNBC for Mic’s new money site

Susie Poppick, a personal finance writer at CNBC, is leaving the company to help Mic get its personal finance operation up and going.

Poppick will help launch and lead Money.Mic, a new website starting this summer.

“Though it wasn’t an easy decision, given the wonderful opportunities at CNBC, the chance to build something from scratch and develop a unique institutional voice within the Mic brand was ultimately too exciting for me to turn down,” said Poppick in an email to Talking Biz News.

“Best of all, we are currently hiring full-time staff reporters — paid competitive salaries, with full benefits — to help me shape and grow the vertical.”

The job postings can be found here.

Before joining CNBC, Poppick was special projects editor at Money magazine. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Money, First Things, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and on CNNMoney.com, Time.com, and Fortune.com.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in cognitive science and a master’s from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

“For a few years now, as some of my former colleagues and friends know, I’ve had growing interest in resolving the challenge of how to make economic, business, and personal/behavioral finance journalism more meaningful, relevant, entertaining, and important to younger audiences,” said Poppick. “It has been a bit of a passion project stuck in my mind, even as I have been writing more traditional personal finance stories for more general audiences.”