LA-based financial writer Kathy Kristof has just been hired as a contributing editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. A former LA Business Journal, LA Daily News and LA Times staffer, Kristof was most recently a regular contributor to CBS MoneyWatch.

“Kathy has long been a leading voice in the personal finance community and will be a tremendous asset to Kiplinger’s, delivering the same kind of authoritative, no-nonsense journalism our organization has offered for decades,” Kiplinger’s editor Janet Bodnar says in a release. “We are pleased to have her on board.”

The collapse of the economy may have hit the print world hard, but at least the financial writers are doing well for themselves. Congrats!