Categories: OLD Media Moves

Yahoo Finance hires personal finance reporter

Mandi Woodruff, who has covered personal finance news and edited Business Insider’s ‘Your Money’ section for the past two years, is now writing personal finance for Yahoo Finance.

In an email to the staff Yahoo Finance editor in chief Aaron Task wrote that Woodruff will “write quick-hit stories on news of the day issues that affect people’s finances and longer-term features to complement our partners’ content.”

Before Business Insider, Woodruff she spent a year at Law360.com as a reporter ans also worked at Reader’s Digest as a research associate editor.

Woodruff is originally from Georgia, and she has a bacherlor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia.

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.