Washington Post’s online publishing subsidiary The Slate Group has launched The Big Money, a business site that provides intelligent and informative commentary and analysis that is both relevant to a user’s every day life and sophisticated enough for a veteran in the financial community. The Big Money will cover the intersection of business and a variety of areas including technology, green initiatives, media, fashion and food.
 
Former Deputy Managing Editor of CNN Money James Ledbetter Jr. will be Editor of The Big Money. Elinor Shields, former Managing Editor of The Huffington Post, joins the site as Deputy Editor. Both Ledbetter and Shields have assembled a group of leading writers to contribute regularly to the site including Slate columnists Daniel Gross and Tim Hartford; economists James K. Galbraith and Jeffrey Sachs; and authors Eric Pooley, Alissa Quart, and Liza Featherstone. The Big Money will enable comments throughout the site, allowing users to have an open dialogue with writers.
  
The Big Money hopes to bring clarity to the complexities of business and finance by providing useful tools and context from the everyday to the obscure. The Big Money will widgetize many of its features and embrace other forms of social media.

Other content on the site includes video produced by Slate V, a daily calendar of business events and a morning roundup of financial headlines from other media. Among the blogs on the site include one that focuses on Google news and another that tackles the complications within the food industry.

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