Summary

• Worked for Investopedia as a copy editor since 2017 with an emphasis on deposit accounts such as CDs and high-yield savings accounts.
• More than three decades of experience in the news business reporting, working on a copy desk, and managing newsrooms at daily publications.
• More than a decade of experience as an editor, working on business plans and proposals, including financial reports.
  

Experience

Brian Abbott has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years, serving first as a reporter and copy editor and lat😼er as managing editor for two separate daily newspapers. He has taught journalism at the high school and college levels and served as a professional adviser for two different university newspapers.

In 2012, Brian started taking on assignments that involved editing b♏usiness and financial documents. He joined Investopedia in 2017.

Education

Brian received a b𒉰achelor of science degree in journalism and English from Central Michigan University and later received a bachelor of arts degree in secondary education and biology from Saginaw Valley State University.

Quote from Brian Abbott

"My interest in financial reporting grew from the early realization as a journalist that money is a key angle in nearly every story, no matter the topic."