TheStreet.com Names David Morrow to Succeed Dave Kansas as Editor-in-Chief

Morrow will join the online news company from <I>SmartMoney</I>.
By TSC Staff ,

TheStreet.com

(TSCM)

announced today that David Morrow, articles editor of

SmartMoney

magazine, will become editor-in-chief, succeeding Dave Kansas.

Kansas, who has been with TheStreet.com for four-and-one-half years, will remain with the company until early July to help with the transition in leadership. Kansas will also vacate his seat on the financial-news organization's board of directors.

"I am extremely pleased that David Morrow has joined our management team," said Thomas J. Clarke, chief executive officer of TheStreet.com. "We have in David an accomplished leader with great journalistic breadth who has demonstrated a commitment to the highest standards of professional integrity. His talent and vision in the financial and media spaces will be enormous assets to us as he builds upon Dave Kansas' outstanding accomplishments."

Before his most recent stint at

SmartMoney

, a joint venture of

Dow Jones

and

Hearst

, Morrow worked at

The New York Times

from 1996 through 2000, covering personal finance, aviation and the pharmaceuticals industries. He also worked at

SmartMoney

from 1993 through 1996, and held positions at

The Detroit Free Press

and

Fortune

.

Kansas, a pioneer in online journalism, has worked at TheStreet.com since September 1996, helping to build the news organization from its infancy. He became editor-in-chief in April 1997. Before that, he worked for five years at

The Wall Street Journal

, most recently as the newspaper's financial markets reporter.

"I'm very proud of what we've accomplished and proud of the people I've worked with," Kansas said. "I look forward to TheStreet.com's continued success."

In midday trading, shares of the TheStreet.com, the publisher of this Web site, were unchanged at $1.76.

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