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Rebecca Jarvis
Rebecca Jarvis

Rebecca Jarvis Biography

Rebecca Jarvis ( Rebecca Ann Jarvis) is an Emmy Award-winning American journalist who presently works for ABC News as the Chief Business, Economics, and Technology Correspondent. She is also the host, founder, and managing editor of the podcasts Real Biz with Jarvis and No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis. In Season 4 of The Apprentice, she was a finalist.

Rebecca Jarvis ABC News | Wikipedia

Jarvis joined CBS News, on April 1, 2010, primarily as a financial reporter, starting and later becoming the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday, and then Business and Economics Correspondent for CBS News. Jarvis contributes to ABC News’ Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos, among others. Jarvis debuted a news program called No Limits with Rebecca on ABC News Radio in 2017. Jarvis cooperated with ABC Radio and ABC Nightline two years later in 2019 and became the host of a podcast called The Dropout, which discussed the growth and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes.

Rebecca Jarvis Career

Jarvis started her career as a journalist by contributing to Crain’s Chicago Business and Business 2.0. She’s also had experience in investment banking and currency trading. Jarvis previously worked for CBS News as a business and economics correspondent and co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday. Jarvis spent three years at CNBC covering market news from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and the New York Mercantile Exchange before joining CBS News. She was a regular contributor to NBC News shows such as The Today Show and Nightly News.

Jarvis has conducted high-profile interviews with business leaders such as Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Jamie Dimon, Jessica Alba, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ursula Burns, the first African American woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, and Mary Barra, the first female CEO of a car company. She’s done exclusive interviews all over the world with people like Apple CEO Tim Cook and was the first and only reporter to interview United CEO Oscar Munoz after the airline’s forcible evacuation of a passenger.

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Jarvis has reported on many presidential elections, the Bernard Madoff scam, the housing bubble, the Great Recession, the financial crisis, and the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. Jarvis was selected as one of the top business journalists in the country by the Alliance for Women in Media’s Women in Numbers Award. Jarvis was also honored with a DuPont Award for her coverage of the Newtown massacre. The Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television and Radio was given to her. Hulu is adapting her podcast, The Dropout, into an original series. She is the project’s Executive Producer.

Rebecca Jarvis Age

How old is Jarvis? Jarvis is 40 years old as of 2021. She was born on 28 September 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 28th of September every year.

Rebecca Jarvis Education

Jarvis studied economics and Law, Letters, and Society at the University of Chicago after graduating from St. Paul Academy and Summit School in 1999 and the University of Chicago in 2003. She attended Sciences Po and Paris Dauphine University in Paris to study international economics and business.

Rebecca Jarvis Nationality | Ethnicity

What ethnicity is Jarvis? she belongs to the white ethnicity/heritage. Jarvis was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. She holds American nationality.

Rebecca Jarvis Height

Jarvis stands at an average height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m).

Rebecca Jarvis Family | Siblings | Parents

Born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Jarvis Gail (née Marks) Jarvis a lawyer and business consultant in Chicago, and James T. Jarvis her mother is the Chicago Tribune’s nationally syndicated financial columnist.

Rebecca Jarvis Husband | Married

Jarvis is happily married to Matthew Hanson. Mathew proposed to her in December 2010, on LaSalle Street in Chicago. The two are proud parents to one. They both graduated from the University of Chicago and worked together at the Bank of America Securities in Chicago.

Rebecca Jarvis Wedding

They tied the knot on January 28, 2012, at McNamara Alumni Center in Minnesota, being joined together by Rev. Craig Hanson, the leading pastor at Roseville Lutheran Church in Roseville, Minnesota.

Rebecca Jarvis Baby | Daughter

Rebecca welcomed her first child, daughter Isabel Noemi Jarvis Hanson, with her husband Matthew Hanson on Wednesday, February, 20.

Rebecca Jarvis Salary

How much does she earn? Jarvis earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.

Rebecca Jarvis Net Worth

Jarvis Emmy Award-winning American journalist at ABC has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which she has earned through being a journalist.

Rebecca Jarvis CNBC

CNBC, the business news channel, announced on March 7, 2006, that Jarvis would be hired as an associate reporter. She covered the NASDAQ and the NYMEX as a general assignment correspondent based at CNBC’s world headquarters. On September 18, 2009, she made her farewell appearance on CNBC. “Rebecca is no longer with CNBC, and we wish her the best,” CNBC spokesman Brian Steel told TVNewser on October 21, 2009.

Rebecca Jarvis Apprentice

Jarvis fractured her ankle while playing hockey as a task-winning reward in the second week of The Apprentice 4. She had to walk with crutches for the rest of the competition, which took 39 days to film in the spring of 2005, but she was totally recovered by the live season finale seven months later. Randal Pinkett was employed in the show’s season finale. Donald Trump asked Pinkett if he should also hire Jarvis; Pinkett responded that since he was the winner, he should be the sole Apprentice.

Rebecca Jarvis TV Shows

  • 2018 The Story of the Royals
  • 2012-2021 CBS This Morning Saturday
  • Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis

Rebecca Jarvis Awards

  • 2000: Point of Light Award winner #1098
  • 2000: “20 Teens Who Will Change the World” by Teen People magazine
  • 2002 – 2003: Recipient of the University of Chicago Dean’s Grant
  • 2012: A recipient of the Women in Numbers Award by The Alliance for Women in Media
  • 2013: Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award: 48 Hours CBS News Prime Time Special: Newtown
  • 2014: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Show – Good Morning America
  • 2015: Nominated Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Show – Good Morning America
  • 2016: Nominated Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Show – Good Morning America
  • 2017: Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Morning Show – Good Morning America