Jason Zweig is an American financial journalist. He has been a columnist for ''

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'' since 2008.

Biography

Zweig received his B.A. from

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1982. He also studied Middle Eastern history and culture at the

Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...

. Zweig began his career in journalism working for the bimonthly journal ''

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''. He then joined ''

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'' magazine's business section and became a business journalist for ''

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'' magazine, later becoming its mutual funds editor. He joined ''

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'' magazine in 1995 and was a guest columnist for ''

'' magazine and

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. He became a personal finance columnist for ''

'' in 2008. Zweig edited a revised version of

Benjamin Graham Benjamin Graham (; né Grossbaum; May 9, 1894 – September 21, 1976) was a British-born American economist, professor and investor. He is widely known as the "father of value investing", and wrote two of the founding texts in neoclassical inves ...

's ''

The Intelligent Investor ''The Intelligent Investor'' by Benjamin Graham, first published in 1949, is a widely acclaimed book on value investing. The book provides strategies on how to successfully use value investing in the stock market. Historically, the book has been o ...

'', published in 2003. 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. Zweig won a 2013 Gerald Loeb Award for Personal Finance and Personal Service for his column, "The Intelligent Investor," in ''The Wall Street Journal''. 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." He was also a past trustee of the

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