Jean Chatzky

Jean Sherman Chatzky (born September 7, 1964) is an American journalist, a personal finance columnist, financial editor of NBC’s TODAY show, AARP’s personal finance ambassador, and the founder and CEO of the multimedia company HerMoney.

Jean Sherman Chatzky
Chatzky in 2009
Born (1964-09-07) September 7, 1964
Michigan
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationJournalist, Author, Motivational Speaker
Websitehermoney.com

Early life and education

Born in Michigan and raised in Wisconsin, Indiana and West Virginia, Chatzky holds a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Career

Starting her career in 1986 at Working Woman, Chatzky rose from editorial assistant to the assistant editor. In 1989 she left journalism and joined the equity research department of Dean Witter Reynolds, returning to journalism two years later as a reporter/researcher at Forbes. She moved to the Dow Jones/Hearst start-up SmartMoney in 1992, rising from staff writer to senior editor. After a five-year run, Chatzky joined Money Magazine in 1998.

Chatzky has appeared on Oprah, Live With Regis and Kelly, The View and other programs. She has written for Parents, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, was a staff writer for SmartMoney and a fact checker for Forbes.

Chatzky is also the financial editor for NBC's Today Show. Jean also maintains a daily blog on her website, www.jeanchatzky.com. In 2011 Chatzky became the director of education and editor in chief for the financial advice site SavvyMoney.com.[2]

In 2018, she launched HerMoney, a multimedia company changing the relationships women have with money — inspired by her weekly podcast, HerMoney with Jean Chatzky.

Chatzky is a best-selling author. Her 2017 book with Michael F. Roizen AgeProof: Living Longer Without Running Out of Money or Breaking a Hip, became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. Her book Women with Money: The Judgment-Free Guide to Creating the Joyful, Less Stressed, Purposeful (and, Yes, Rich) Life You Deserve was published by Grand Central Publishing in March 2019.

In early 2015, Chatzky and the division of Time Inc., Time for Kids, launched a magazine called Your $ to teach financial literacy to fourth, fifth, and sixth graders.[3] The PwC Charitable Foundation provided financial support for the magazine, which had the goal of reaching 2 million American students.[3]

Personal life

In May 2009, Chatzky married magazine executive Eliot Kaplan in Irvington, New York.[1] She supports various service groups, and is on the advisory committee for the annual University of Pennsylvania Nora Magid Mentorship Prize, established in 2003 by investigative journalist Stephen Fried and her husband.[4] The prize is given to a senior who shows exceptional ability and promise in writing, reporting, or editing.[5] She is also on the Communications Committee for the University of Pennsylvania.

She is a resident of Briarcliff Manor, New York, where her former husband Peter Chatzky served as mayor.[6][7]

Works
  • The Difference: How Anyone Can Prosper in Even The Toughest Times (March 2009)
  • Make Money, Not Excuses (March 2008)
  • Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day (January 2006). ISBN 978-1-59184-063-3
  • The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness (January 2005)
  • Talking Money (January 2001)
  • Not Your Parents' Money Book: Making, Saving and Spending Your Own Money (August 2010)
  • Money rules: the simple path to lifelong security (2012). ISBN 978-1-60961-860-5

Awards and recognition

Chatzky received the Clarion Award for magazine columns from the Association for Women in Communications in 2002, and her radio show received a Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television in 2012.[8] She has also been nominated twice as part of a three-person writing team each time for National Magazine Awards in Personal Service, and was named one of the best magazine columnists in the country by the Chicago Tribune in 2003 for her writing in Money.[9] In 2009, the Consumer Federation of America awarded Chatzky the Betty Furness Consumer Media Service Award for her nearly two decades of pioneering personal finance education.[10]

References
  1. "Weddings: Jean Chatzky and Eliot Kaplan", May 2, 2009, New York Times. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  2. "About Us", SavvyMoney.com. Retrieved September 3, 2019
  3. Ember, Sydney, "New Magazine Teaches Children Financial Lessons", February 1, 2015, New York Times. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  4. Fried, Stephen, "My Last Paper for Nora", 2005, NoraPrize.com. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  5. The Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, "Nora Magid Mentorship Prize", University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  6. Scharfenberg, David, "Of Trophy Homes and Unsporting Battles", December 18, 2005, New York Times. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  7. La Gorce, Tammy, "A Financial Guru Who Keeps It Personal", December 19, 2008, New York Times. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  8. Alliance for Women in Media, "Previous Honorees: 2012". Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  9. "The 50 Best Magazines", June 12, 2003, Chicago Tribune. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
  10. Consumer Federation of America, "Thirty-Ninth Annual Awards Dinner", June 17, 2009. Retrieved September 3, 2019.
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