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Aaron Task is an American journalist and on-air host. From 2015 to 2016 he was Digital Editor of Fortune and the host of the podcast Fortune Unfiltered. From 2008 to 2015 he was Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo! Finance and the host of The Daily Ticker. [1] In August 2015 he announced that he was leaving Yahoo. [2] He previously worked at TheStreet.com [3] in a variety of roles, including executive editor and SF bureau chief. Task was contributing editor for Barry Ritholtz's book Bailout Nation (Wiley, 2008). Task received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Rutgers university. [4]

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  1. "Yahoo! Finance". Archived from the original on 2014-07-18. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
  2. Talking Biz
  3. TheStreet.com
  4. Rutgers