Categories: OLD Media Moves

Yahoo Finance hires Shapiro of Fox Business to be an anchor

Yahoo Finance has hired Adam Shapiro of Fox Business Network to be an anchor for its expanding live video operation, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily.

Guaglione writes, “CBS’ Lulu Chiang is heading to Yahoo Finance as senior executive producer of live events. She will help scale the Yahoo Finance ‘All Markets Summit’ event franchise, the latest one held in New York City today.

“Adam Shapiro, a correspondent at Fox News and Fox Business, will become an anchor at Yahoo Finance.

“‘He will work with some of our other producers to think about what the programs will look like to make sure they are unique and different in the marketplace,’ Joanna Lambert, general manager of finance and tech at Oath, told Publishers Daily. She oversees the Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch and Engadget brands.

“Chiang and Shapiro and a few other recent hires join Yahoo Finance as it ‘continues to upgrade our coverage and our programming,’ Lambert said.”

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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.