Jason Zweig is a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as "by far the best book on investing ever written."
Jason Zweig joined Money in 1995 from Forbes, where he had worked since 1987; from 1992 through 1995, as a senior editor, he directed Forbes' extensive coverage of mutual funds. Earlier, he was a reporter-researcher for the Economy & Business section of Time and an editorial assistant at Africa Report, a bimonthly journal. Jason Zweig has a B.A. from Columbia College, where he was awarded a John Jay National Scholarship. He also spent a year studying Middle Eastern history and culture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel.
A frequent commentator on radio and television, Jason Zweig has appeared on ABC's Nightline with Ted Koppel, CNBC, CNN, Public Radio's Marketplace, and PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. As a public speaker, he has addressed the Association for Investment Management & Research, the Aspen Institute, the Harvard University Program on Behavioral Finance, and the Morningstar Investment Conference.
In 1998 and 1999, Jason Zweig was a finalist for the Gerald R. Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. In 2001 he was honored as "best financial columnist for a national publication" by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Zweig received the 2002 Excellence in Investor Education Award from the Mutual Fund Education Alliance and was awarded a Hoover Institution Media Fellowship at Stanford University in 2003.
Jason Zweig is a trustee of the Museum of American Financial History, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Financial History magazine and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. Jason Zweig is no relation to money manager Martin E. Zweig.
Jason Zweig is a senior writer for Money magazine and a guest columnist for Time magazine and cnn.com. He is also the editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor (HarperCollins, 2003), the classic text that Warren Buffett has described as "by far the best book about investing ever written."
Before joining Money in 1995, Jason Zweig was the mutual funds editor at Forbes. Earlier, he had been a reporter-researcher for the Economy & Business section of Time and an editorial assistant at Africa Report, a bimonthly journal. Zweig has a B.A. from Columbia College, where he was awarded a John Jay National Scholarship. He also spent a year studying Middle Eastern history and culture at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. In 2001 Zweig was named "best financial columnist for a national publication" by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He received the 2002 Excellence in Investor Education Award from the Mutual Fund Education Alliance and was awarded a Hoover Institution Media Fellowship at Stanford University in 2003.
Zweig is a trustee of the Museum of American Financial History, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the editorial boards of Financial History magazine and The Journal of Behavioral Finance. Jason Zweig is not related to money manager Martin E. Zweig.