| Education: | Columbia University (BA) |
| Occupation: | Journalist, columnist |
| Organization: | The Wall Street Journal |
| Awards: | Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance (2011) |
Jason Zweig is an American financial journalist. He has been a columnist for The Wall Street Journal since 2008.[1]
Zweig received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1982.[2] He also studied Middle Eastern history and culture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[3]
Zweig began his career in journalism working for the bimonthly journal The Africa Report.[4] He then joined Time magazine's business section and became a business journalist for Forbes magazine, later becoming its mutual funds editor.[5] He joined Money magazine in 1995 and was a guest columnist for Time magazine and CNN.com. He became a personal finance columnist for The Wall Street Journal in 2008.[6]
Zweig edited a revised version of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor, published in 2003.[7] 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.[8] [9]
Zweig won a 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance and Personal Service for his column,[10] "The Intelligent Investor," in The Wall Street Journal.[11] [12] 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."[13] He was also a past trustee of the Museum of American Finance.[14]