June Fletcher is an American business and financial writer for ''
The Naples Daily News''. Her beat focuses on business, finance and real estate.
She formerly was a business and real estate reporter for ''
The Wall Street Journal
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''.
Early life and education
Fletcher was named Miss Bikini USA before entering
Princeton University
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in 1969, the first year of
coeducation
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.
Untitled.
''Time
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'', 19 September 1969. She received a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in English from Princeton. She also holds a master's degree from Oxford University
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in English.
Career
Fletcher was the "House Talk" columnist for WSJ.com from 2005 to 2008. Before becoming a columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal'' (WSJ), she was a staff reporter for 13 years. She is a regular contributor to the WSJ's "Weekend Journal", and is the columnist for House Talk. She is also a contributing writer for The Daily Beast
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It has been characterized as a "high-end tabloid" by Noah Shachtman, the site's editor-in-chief from 2018 to 2021. In a 20 ...
, Yahoo!
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, and '' Financial Planning magazine''. Before working for the WSJ, she was a senior editor at ''Builder'' magazine.
Works
Fletcher is the author of a consumer book on buying and selling real estate titled ''House Poor'', published by Collins.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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