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Yahoo Finance hires Hyman as anchor

Julie Hyman

Yahoo Finance announced that longtime Bloomberg Television staffer Julie Hyman has been hired as an anchor, part of the ongoing video expansion and increased live market coverage.

Hyman has covered financial markets for 20 years, spending the bulk of her career at Bloomberg Television. There, she served in a number of roles, most recently as senior markets correspondent, and previously as anchor; retail reporter; and correspondent at the NYSE and Nasdaq.

She joined Bloomberg as a reporter covering European stocks, in the Paris bureau. Hyman began her career at the Washington Times. She grew up outside Baltimore and attended Randolph-Macon College.

“We are thrilled that Julie is joining our team,” said Andy Hoffman, senior executive producer of Yahoo Finance. “She is an all-star journalist who brings passion and intelligence to the reporting of financial content.”

Hyman is that latest in a string of new hires for Yahoo Finance – spanning production, studios, talent and editorial – including Lulu Chiang, Adam Shapiroand others. She will be based in Yahoo Finance’s New York bureau.

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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