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]