Rebecca Jarvis Biography
Rebecca Jarvis is a journalist and investment banker from the United States. She is the host, creator, and managing editor of Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis, as well as the host of the podcasts No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis and The Dropout. On Season 4 of The Apprentice, she was a finalist.
Rebecca Jarvis Age
Jarvis is 40 years old as of 2021. She was born Rebecca Ann Jarvis on 28 September 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Rebecca Jarvis Height
Jarvis stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches(1.75m).
Rebecca Jarvis Family
Jarvis is the daughter of Gail (née Marks) Jarvis and James T. Jarvis. Her father is a Chicago lawyer and business consultant. Her mother is a widely syndicated financial columnist for the Chicago Tribune.
Rebecca Jarvis Husband
Jarvis married Matthew Hanson at McNamara Alumni Center in Minnesota on January 28, 2012. They are both University of Chicago graduates who formerly worked at Bank of America Securities in Chicago. On February 20, 2019, they welcomed their first child, a daughter.
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 The Apprentice
Jarvis fractured her ankle while playing hockey as a task-winning prize on The Apprentice 4’s second week. 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 recruit Jarvis; Pinkett responded that since he was the winner, he should be the sole Apprentice.
Rebecca Jarvis Salary
As an ABC News journalist, Rebecca earns between $93,429 and $131,014 per year.
Rebecca Jarvis Net Worth
Jarvis has an estimated net worth of $1.5million.
Rebecca Jarvis Career
In February 2000, Jarvis was named one of Teen People’s “20 Teens Who Will Change the World.” She was recognized for raising over $750,000 for her own non-profit children’s organization, which she founded at the age of 15 with the help of Al Gore and Colin Powell. For her promotion of underprivileged children and teens, she was also dubbed a “Point of Light.” Jarvis was a member of the National Youth Leadership Council’s Youth Project Team throughout high school, and while acting as a NYLC Youth Reporter at National Youth Summits, he received one of the few interviews permitted by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Jarvis worked on Citigroup’s foreign exchange desk in London as a short-term interest rate trader. She later worked as an investment banking analyst at Banc of America Securities in Chicago. Jarvis has worked in investment banking and foreign exchange trading, but has since left the industry to seek a career in journalism. She has contributed to Crain’s Chicago Business and Business 2.0, among other publications. She is on the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers as a governor.
CNBC, the business news channel, announced Jarvis’ employment as an associate reporter on March 7, 2006. She covered the NASDAQ and the NYMEX as a general assignment correspondent headquartered 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.
Jarvis joined CBS News on April 1, 2010, initially as a financial reporter, and went on to become the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday and CBS News’ Business and Economics Correspondent. She announced her departure from CBS News on CBS This Morning Saturday on March 30, 2013, but did not specify where she was headed. She revealed on April 2 that she would be joining ABC News later that month. Since then, she has served as ABC’s Chief Business and Economics Correspondent.
Jarvis is currently the host, creator, and managing editor of Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis, as well as the Chief Business, Technology, and Economics Correspondent for ABC News. She contributes to ABC News’ Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos, among others.
Jarvis began a new podcast, No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis, with ABC News Radio in 2017. Jarvis became the host of “The Dropout,” a podcast on the rise and fall of Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, in January 2019, in collaboration with ABC Radio and ABC Nightline.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.