Christine Marie Nielsen
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| Christine Marie Nielsen | |
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| Occupation | Journalist |
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| Employer | John J. Lothian & Company, Inc. |
| Location | Chicago |
| Twitter ID | JLNInterestRates |
| Web site | [http:://www.jlninterestrates.com www.jlninterestrates.com] |
Christine Marie Nielsen is an award-winning Chicago-based journalist who has specialized in covering the financial industry and expanded into creative nonfiction work. She has been an editor and producer with John J. Lothian & Co. since the early stages of the MarketsWiki project. She is editor of the CME Group-sponsored JLN Interest Rates Blog and the related JLN Interest Rates Newsletter.
Nielsen also currently acts as an executive editor of intercultural content for nonprofit startup Living Earth Television (LETV).
She is a lifelong member of the journalism honor society Kappa Tau Alpha.
Biography
Nielsen worked as a full-time staff reporter for Dow Jones Newswires for eight years, covering Chicago futures exchange and economic news. She also was employed as a wire reporter for international news service Knight-Ridder Financial for just over three years. She's had stories in BusinessWeek Chicago and Dow Jones publications The Wall Street Journal and Barron's, in addition to newspapers all over the world.
Her background includes work as an equity market analyst as well, and she's been quoted as an expert on the stock market by both WSJ.com and French wire service Agence France-Presse. She also did a stint for Business News Network as a host for a daily syndicated radio spot on the markets.
Nielsen's reporting career began back in Milwaukee, where she worked as a community reporter for the daily newspaper the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Education
Nielsen is currently enrolled in Northwestern University's master's program in creative nonfiction. She received an undergraduate degree in journalism with an English minor from Marquette University in the late 1990s and during that time also studied photography at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
