Jen Wieczner is a senior writer at Fortune Magazine. She covers Wall Street and finance, business, and cryptocurrency. she is also a founding editor of The Ledger, a Fortune initiative dedicated to the intersection of money and tech—including a newsletter, video show "Balancing the Ledger," and a new conference called Brainstorm Finance.

Her recent stories include a profile of hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen—including his first interview since a record-breaking insider trading scandal; an investigation into an alarming pattern of hacks at leading Bitcoin exchange Coinbase; and an award-winning feature about Paul Singer's hedge fund Elliott Management, and the controversial tactics that have helped make it today's most successful activist investor.

She is a winner of a SABEW Best in Business award and also of the 2017 American Society of Magazine Editors “Next” Award honoring journalists under 30. In 2018, she received a SABEW Best in Business award and the NYU Cyber Journalism Award.

Jen joined Fortune in 2013 after covering health care and the Affordable Care Act for MarketWatch and The Wall Street Journal. She has also previously written for SmartMoney, The Atlantic, Fast Company, New York, Edible Manhattan, Boston, Glamour, Harvard Summer Review and Marie Claire.

Originally from Boston, she graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. in journalism.

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