The Penny Hoarder hires Moorhead to be editor and team leader

Molly Moorhead

Personal finance site The Penny Hoarder has hired Tampa Bay Times editorial writer Molly Moorhead.

Moorhead will be an editor and a team leader. She will start on March 18.

Moorhead is a native of St. Petersburg and graduate of the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications. She came to the Times in 2002 as a reporter in Pasco County, where she covered city government, the Sheriff’s Office and the courts and wrote occasional human interest columns.

In 2011, she joined the national staff of PolitiFact.com, checking political claims from Washington and the 2012 presidential election.

The Penny Hoarder and the Times are located in the same building in downtown St. Petersburg, Florida. The Penny Hoarder is on the top floor.

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.