Jean Sherman Chatzky
(born 1964, Michigan) is an American financial journalist, author and motivational speaker. Chatzky has given personal financial advice on various TV shows. She is the financial editor for NBC's Today Show.
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Biography
Born in Michigan and raised in
Wisconsin,
Indiana and
West Virginia, Chatzky holds a BA in
English from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Starting her career in 1986 at
Working Woman
, Chatzky rose from editorial assistant to 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, a contributing editor for
More
Magazine, a columnist for the New York
Daily News
. She hosts a daily show on the
Oprah & Friends channel, on SIRIUS XM satellite radio. Jean also maintains a daily blog on her website, www.jeanchatzky.com.
In addition to her professional work, Chatzky supports various service groups and is on the board of the Nora Magid Mentorship prize at the
University of Pennsylvania, co-founded by her current husband, Eliot Kaplan, which helps journalism students get a head-start in the field. She is also on the Communications Committee for the University of Pennsylvania.
On May 3, 2009, she married Eliot Kaplan. They reside in
Westchester County,
New York with her two children from her first marriage.
Works
- (March 2009)
- Make Money, Not Excuses
(March 2008)
- Pay It Down: From Debt to Wealth on $10 A Day
(January 2006). ISBN 978-1591840633
- The Ten Commandments of Financial Happiness
(January 2005)
- Talking Money
(January 2001)
Awards and recognition
Chatzky received the
Clarion Award for magazine columns from the Association of Woman in Communications in 2002, and her radio show received a
Gracie Award from the American Women in Radio and Television. 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 country’s 30 best magazine columnists by the
Chicago Tribune
in 2003. 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.