Categories: OLD Media Moves

Task named digital editor of Fortune

Fortune editor Alan Murray sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday:

I am delighted to announce that Aaron Task, formerly editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance, will become Digital Editor of Fortune, effective September 24.

Aaron is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years experience covering business and finance.  Before joining Yahoo in 2008, he spent 10 years at TheStreet.com in a variety of roles, including executive editor.  He also served as the on-camera host for Yahoo’s video efforts.  He is the winner of a number of journalism awards and co-author, with Barry Ritholtz, of the 2008 book Bailout Nation.

Fortune has made great progress since the launch of our web site only 14 months ago.  Aaron has the right skills to take us to the next stage.  He is an accomplished journalist who understands the digital media world inside out, and he wins high praise from his Yahoo colleagues as both an editor and manager.

We are lucky to have him join us.  Please welcome him, and look forward to great things ahead.

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.

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