Jason Zweig is an American financial journalist. He has been a columnist for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' since 2008.
Biography
Zweig received his B.A. from
Columbia University
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in 1982. He also studied Middle Eastern history and culture at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Zweig began his career in journalism working for the bimonthly journal ''
The Africa Report
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History and profile
Created in 2005 by Paris-based Jeune Afrique Media Group, ''The Africa Report'' is edited by Africa Confidential ...
''.
He then joined ''
Time
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'' magazine's business section and became a business journalist for ''
Forbes
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'' magazine, later becoming its mutual funds editor.
He joined ''
Money
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'' magazine in 1995 and was a guest columnist for ''
Time
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'' magazine and
CNN.com
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. He became a personal finance columnist for ''
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
'' in 2008.
Zweig edited a revised version of
Benjamin Graham's ''
The Intelligent Investor
''The Intelligent Investor'' by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing. The book provides strategies on how to successfully use value investing in the stock market. Historically, the book has been ...
'', published in 2003. His other books include ''Your Money and Your Brain'' (2007), a book on the neuroscience of investing, and ''The Devil's Financial Dictionary'' (2015), a satirical glossary of financial terms.
Zweig won a 2013
Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance and Personal Service for his column, "The Intelligent Investor," in ''The Wall Street Journal''. He also received the 40th
Elliot V. Bell Award from the New York Financial Writers Association in 2020 for an "outstanding journalist for a significant long-term contribution to the profession of financial journalism." He was also a past trustee of the
Museum of American Finance
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.
References
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Living people
American journalists
American columnists
The Wall Street Journal people
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Personal Finance
Columbia College (New York) alumni
American financial writers
Forbes people
Time (magazine) people
CNN people
Year of birth missing (living people)