In his four decade career as a business journalist, Serwer has worked as a reporter, writer, editor, TV broadcaster, radio and podcast host and film producer. At Barron’s, Serwer writes stories and columns as well as hosts a video interview series, ‘At Barron’s with Andy Serwer.’ Prior to leading Yahoo Finance editorial as Editor in Chief, Serwer was Managing Editor of Fortune Magazine for eight years. Previously he was a writer and reporter at the magazine for 20 years starting from a fact checker in 1985 and later writing features and columns. He founded one of the first digital business news blogs, Streetlife in 1997, about which the New Yorker wrote: “Achaea had Homer, the Spanish Civil War had Hemingway, California had the Beach Boys and now our hyperactive stock market has its own poet-singer—Andy Serwer.” From 2000 to 2006, he was the business news anchor of CNN’s American Morning. Serwer was the 2020 recipient of the Elliott V. Bell Award, which honors journalists who have made a significant contribution to the field of financial journalism. He was named by peers as a Business News Visionary 2020 and was TJFR Business Journalist of the Year 2000 and one of the top 100 of the century.
