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Wolk moves to MSN Money as personal finance editor

Marty Wolk, the executive business editor of NBC News Digital, has accepted a position as personal finance editor of MSN Money, effective immediately.

He will report to Chris Oster, managing editor of MSN Money, a unit of Miscrosoft.

“In my new post, I will be responsible for coverage of issues related to money, including saving money, setting budgets, getting credit, dealing with debt, insurance and taxes,” said Wolk in an email to Talking Biz News.

At NBC News Digital, he was in charge of business and money content on msnbc.com and TODAY.com.

“I am very excited to be joining a fine group of editors and writers at MSN Money, many of whom I have known for years,” said Wolk, who is secretary of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers and in line to become president of the organization in 2015.

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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