Yahoo Finance hires Australia/New Zealand editor

Sarah O'Carroll

Sarah O’Carroll

Yahoo Finance has appointed Sarah O’Carroll to the newly created role of editor in chief for Australia and New Zealand.

A story on B and T magazine’s website states, “O’Carroll will be responsible for driving a range of new editorial initiatives to expand the site’s content offering, targeting today’s finance consumer at key life stages.

“She joins Yahoo Finance from the content strategy consultancy she founded, Power Ink Media. O’Carroll is also the former business editor of news.com.au and was head of content partnerships for publisher Private Media.

“Simon Wheeler, director of content at Yahoo7, said: ‘We’re really excited to be able to announce Sarah as the new editor-in-chief for Yahoo Finance.

“‘She is a respected business journalist in Australia and will bring creativity, enthusiasm and personality as we bring this global brand to the ANZ audience.'”

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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.