Categories: OLD Media Moves

TheStreet.com names new CEO

Elisabeth DeMarse has been named the new CEO of TheStreet.com, effectively immediately. She replaces Daryl Otte.

A story on the financial news company’s website states, “Otte announced plans to step down by the end of March. DeMarse has previously served as CEO of Bankrate and CreditCards.com.

“‘We are thrilled to announce that Elisabeth will be leading the Company in the next phase of its growth,’ Woody Marshall, chairman of TheStreet, said in a press release. ‘Elisabeth is an ideal fit for this key role at the Company — a highly experienced and tremendously skilled digital media executive with a deep background in the financial information vertical.’

“DeMarse praised TheStreet’s ‘fantastic collection of assets,’ saying in a statement that the company ‘is a pioneer in the field with a strong and recognized brand and has a unique position as a nimble, independent, purely digital player in a high-value media vertical. Moreover, the company immensely benefits from the many contributions of its founder and director, Jim Cramer, a true market savant who is certainly the most recognized personality in financial media.’

“TheStreet shares closed Wednesday’s regular trading session at $1.80.”

Read more here.

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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