YCharts Hires Wall Street Journal-New York Times Veteran Jeff Bailey as Editor

YCharts.com has named Jeff Bailey as its editor, as the
investor-information company moves to rapidly expand its news and
content offerings. Bailey is a former editor, columnist and
reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where he spent 20 years, and
also worked as a staff financial reporter at the New York Times and
Los Angeles Times. He was also the editor of Crains Chicago
Business, and has written for national business and
general-interest magazines. Jeff brings deep financial journalism
experience and the ability to produce sophisticated business
coverage to our company, said Shawn Carpenter, founder and CEO of
YCharts. He has been acting as our editor on a consulting basis
since 2010, and now will work full-time to lead our expansion of
content to better serve the more than 400,000 investors who visit
YCharts each month. Bringing Jeff aboard shows how serious we are
about delivering smart content. YCharts closed a second round of
funding in December, a move that will allow the company to
accelerate its already-rapid growth since its founding in 2009.
YCharts offers investors the easiest-to-use charting software on
the web for more than 5,000 publicly-traded stocks and scores of
economic indicators. Most of this data is free to users, and
subscribers get access to an even more in-depth data set.
Morningstar is among YCharts major investors. YCharts daily email
includes an investment-focused article, illustrated with YCharts
data, and is syndicated across the web and published by the likes
of Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, Forbes.com, SeekingAlpha, Motley
Fool and others. The content and use of charts from YCharts is also
available to newspapers and other financial publications for online
or printed distribution. As a financial journalist for three
decades, Ive been stunned at how easy to use and comprehensive
YCharts is. Seeing so much data in chart form really accelerates
your understanding of a company or industry, and its prospects,
Bailey said. For the millions of individual investors who choose to
make their own investment decisions and for the professionals who
serve them YCharts makes rational comparisons and smart decisions a
lot easier.