Highlights
- Personal finance at contributor The Balance and other outlets with more than 30 years experience as a journalist.
- Award winning personal finance and business journalist with more than a decade of experience covering mortgages, insurance, credit, banking, and other personal finance topics.
- John has been a panelist at financial news industry gatherings and appears on local and national television broadcasts to share his personal finance expertise.
experience
John has written extensively on personal finance topics for outlets such as Forbes Advisor, Experian, US News & World Report, Bankrate, and CreditCards.com. Among his TV appearances are those on Fox Business, The Weather Channel and the CBS affiliate in Austin, Texas. John has been a panelist at the annual FinCon gathering for creators of personal finance content, and has won professional awards from the Missouri and Texas press associations, Ragan’s PR Daily, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW).
Education
John earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Kansas. He also holds a master’s degree in marketing from Southern New Hampshire University.
About The Balance
The Balance, a Dotdash Meredith brand, makes money easy to understand. We give people tools they need to not only make smart financial decisions but also prepare for the experiences they will have along the way. Our team of expert writers and editors have extensive qualifications in the topics they cover, and many of them have MBAs, PhDs, CFPs, and other advanced degrees and professional certifications. We require our writers to use primary sources in their articles, which are also approved by our Financial Review Board and fact-checked. You can learn more about the standards we follow in producing accurate, unbiased content in our editorial policy.