SourceMedia has hired business journalist Walden Siew to be editor in chief of the Employee Benefits Group, overseeing the Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit Adviser brands.
“We will be covering topics affecting every corner of corporate America — from health care reform to digital disruption, the #MeToo movement and company wellness care, the opioid epidemic and more,” said Siew on LinkedIn.
Siew had been the financial services editor at LinkedIn since December 2016. Before that, he was news editor at Crain’s InvestmentNews for a year.
He also spent eight years at Reuters. He was editor of the Global Markets Forum and deputy editor of wealth and finance coverage, running the wealth management, investment management and investment banking top news pages.
Siew was also a reporter at Bloomberg News for six years, working as a corporate bond reporter on the U.S. bond team and as a
U.S. Treasury/foreign exchange reporter.
He holds degrees from Boston University and Northwestern University.
