TheStreet.com hires managing editor, tech reporter

Financial news site TheStreet.com has hired Scott Billings as managing editor and Jennifer Van Grove, who joins as technology and social media reporter.

Billings will be based out of TheStreet’s headquarters on Wall Street, and Van Grove will report from San Diego.

“Our mission is to offer investors credible insights that will help them make the best decisions about their money,” said Elisabeth DeMarse, CEO of TheStreet, in a statement. “Our newsroom has really been taking shape under the leadership of Editor in Chief Janet Guyon in recent months, and adding Scott and Jennifer to the team will undoubtedly further the company’s goal.”

Billings has spent the bulk of his career with The Wall Street Journal, both overseas and in the United States. Among his roles at the Journal were copy editor on the foreign and domestic desks, news editor for the national desk and broadcast news editor for the Wall Street Journal’s content partnership with CNBC. Billings helped launch CNBC.com in 2006 and was the website’s first news editor, overseeing staff in New Jersey, London and Singapore while coordinating content with CNBC TV.

Van Grove began her career covering technology for Mashable where she wrote about startups in a daily series, “Spark of Genius” while reporting on technology, business and social media.

During that time, she was also the technology correspondent for NBC San Diego. Van Grove went on to VentureBeat where she wrote about social media and reported on breaking news developments in technology. She most recently was a reporter for CNET where she led coverage of the social beat with breaking news stories, original reporting, features and analysis.