Liz Weston

Liz Weston is author of all four editions of the national best-seller Your Credit Score. One of MSN Money's most popular columnists, she also writes the column Money Talk, which appears in newspapers nationwide, from The L.A. Times to Stars and Stripes. She has appeared on The Dr. Phil Show, NBC Nightly News, and The Today Show, and for several years was a weekly commentator on CNBC's Power Lunch. She is a regular commentator on public radio, including Marketplace Money's "Getting Personal"...See more

Liz Weston is author of all four editions of the national best-seller Your Credit Score. One of MSN Money's most popular columnists, she also writes the column Money Talk, which appears in newspapers nationwide, from The L.A. Times to Stars and Stripes. She has appeared on The Dr. Phil Show, NBC Nightly News, and The Today Show, and for several years was a weekly commentator on CNBC's Power Lunch. She is a regular commentator on public radio, including Marketplace Money's "Getting Personal" segments. Weston was awarded the 2010 Betty Furness Consumer Media Award by the Consumer Federation of America, designed to honor individuals who have made "exceptional progress in American consumerism." Her honors include a 2007 Clarion Award for her MSN series on financial benchmarks and a 2008 "Best in Business" designation from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. She participated in journalism teams that won a Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service in 1989 and a Gerald Loeb business journalism award in 1997. She is a graduate of the Certified Financial Planner training program at the University of California, Irvine. See less