Jen Wieczner

Jen Wieczner is an award-winning journalist and features writer at New York Magazine. Her last name is pronounced vee-ETCH-ner. She covers Wall Street, business, cryptocurrency and more. 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 the winner of the 2020 National Headliner Awards for magazine feature writing; the Society of the Silurians’ 2018 medallion for business and financial reporting; the NYU Cyber Journalism Award in 2018; two SABEW Best in Business awards (2018 and 2020); and the 2017 American Society of Magazine Editors “Next” Award honoring journalists under 30. Jen has previously written for Fortune,The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, 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. She currently lives in New York.