Jason Zweig

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.^[4][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]