TheStreet hires two new editorial staffers

Financial news site TheStreet.com has hired two new editorial staff members.

Binti Pawa has been hired as senior director of search engine optimization, working in the newsroom.

Pawa came from Time, where she also had a senior SEO role before leaving earlier this year. She had been head of SEO for food, lifestyle and luxury. She has also been head of SEO for Fareportal and Travelocity.

Cathaleen Chen has also been hired as a consumer reporter for TheStreet. She came from The Real Deal. Chen also worked at the Christian Science Monitor and holds a journalism degree from Northwestern University.

“Both started last week and killing it early on,” said CEO David Callaway in an email to Talking Biz News.

TheStreet is still looking for an editor in chief.

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.