Tara Siegel Bernard

Tara Siegel Bernard is a personal finance reporter for The New York Times.

Before joining The Times in 2008, Ms. Siegel Bernard was deputy managing editor at FiLife, a personal finance Web site, and a news editor at CNBC. She also spent a decade at Dow Jones, where she wrote a weekly personal finance column and was a regular contributor to The Wall Street Journal’s small-business and health costs columns.

Before writing about personal finance, she covered the banking and credit card industries.

Ms. Siegel Bernard graduated from Hofstra University and lives with her family in Brooklyn.