Categories: OLD Media Moves

Yahoo Finance expanding its streaming video offerings

Yahoo Finance is adding to its streaming video lineup, ordering two new shows, reports Alex Weprin of Digital News Daily.

Weprin reports that the two news shows are an “interview series ‘Breakout Breakfast’ and a talk show hosted by Ellevest co-founder and financial expert Sallie Krawcheck.

“‘Breakout Breakfast,’ which launches today with an interview with Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud, will be hosted by Yahoo Finance reporter Melody Hahm. The show will originate from Oath’s ‘BUILD’ video studio.

“‘We really want to tap into the startup culture: starting companies up is part of the millennial experience,’ said Yahoo Finance editor-in-chief Andy Serwer in an interview with Digital News Daily. ‘We want all the people who are in General Assembly and WeWork, who are sitting around discussing new ideas in Bushwick, to tap into that audience: people who are starting up really cool new companies that are successful, and just hitting critical mass.'”

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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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