Professional Experience
Call me for jump-off-the page, entertaining and informative stories about anything money. My comfort zone includes mutual funds, investing strategies, debt/credit issues, budgeting and more. My stories make personal finance relevant, interesting and even fun for the average reader. Explaining the ins-and-outs of everything money to newbies while simultaneously challenging more experienced investors is what I do for a living. I also write about small business money issues. Readers of my Star-Ledger money makeover column swear my stories are what they turn to first on Sundays, and I use my consumer affairs expertise to help readers in a weekly column called "Bamboozled." I also have a wealth of experience writing for Web sites and magazines, and I'm a regular contributor to Entrepreneur.com. If you want clean, on-target copy from a dedicated writer who's never missed a deadline (even my three kids were born early!), give me a call.
Expertise
Book Author
15 Years
Producer (television)
14 Years
Writer
20 Years
Specialty
Consumer Products
20 Years
Women's Issues
20 Years
Personal Finance
20 Years
Industries
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
20 Years
Newspaper - Local/Regional
20 Years
Online/new media
20 Years
Total Media Industry Experience
20 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
The Star-Ledger (10+), Consumerist.com (10+), Inside Jersey (10+)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Highmount Capital (10+), National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) (10+)
Other Work History
I'm a weekly personal finance and consumer affairs columnist for The Star-Ledger, New Jersey's largest newspaper, and I write a weekly column for Consumerist.com.
I also write a personal finance column for Inside Jersey magazine.
I'm a book author, line editor and reorganizer, with a dozen titles under my belt covering both money and new age topics.
Before my writing career, I was a business news producer for CNN-fn and CNBC.
Please visit my web site -- www.KarinPriceMueller.com -- for a large sample of current work.
Foreign Language Skills
some French
Computer Skills
MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop.
References
Available upon request.
Awards
2013: NJ Press Assoc., 1st Place, Business & Financial Writing Portfolio
2013: Toastmasters Communications and Leadership Award
2011: N.J. Society of Prof. Journalists, 3rd Place, Public Service-Daily
2010: N.J. Society of Prof. Journalists, 2nd Place, Daily Newspaper Column
2010: Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Best in Business Award
2010: Financial Planning Assoc.'s Heart of Financial Planning Award
2009: Financial Planning Assoc. of N.J.'s Distinguished Service Award
2004: Winner, Financial Planning Association of New Jerseys Friendship Award
1998: Winner, N.Y. Society of CPAs Excellence in Financial Journalism Award
1996: Winner, CableACE Award, Best Business or Consumer Programming Special or Series
1995: Finalist, CableACE Award, Best Business or Consumer Programming Special or Series