Yahoo Finance hires Sam Ro as ME

Yahoo Finance has hired Sam Ro from Business Insider to be its managing editor.

In this new role, he will work with editor in chief Andy Serwer to oversee and direct the site’s editorial content.

Most recently Ro was a deputy editor at Business Insider, where he led the site’s coverage of global markets. He previously served as an equity analyst for the Forbes Special Situation Survey and Forbes Growth Investor equity newsletters, while his work has been published in Forbes, DealBreaker, and The Fiscal Times.

Sam has also held positions at James F. Reda & Associates, Brown Brothers Harriman, and Paul Weiss. He has a bachelor’s degree in religion from Boston University, and is a CFA charterholder.

Ro is the latest in a recent string of new hires by Yahoo Finance as the site continues to expand its editorial team, including sports and tech writer Daniel Roberts, markets correspondent Nicole Sinclair, and anchor and reporter Alexis Christoforous.

His first day in the New York office will be Feb. 29.

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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William Cavico says:
May 29, 2016 at 6:25 pm
I read Sam Ro's column about Trump's isolationist ideas. I wonder if Mr. Ro could do another story in the present time where all the big money has shifted to overseas investments and consider the implication that Trump's isolationist policy may force that money to come back to America where it will invested in new and existing companies in America !
Bill C.