Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times

Tara Siegel Bernard is a personal finance reporter for The New York Times. Before joining The Times in 2008, she was deputy managing editor at FiLife, a personal finance Web site, and a news editor at CNBC. Ms. Siegel Bernard 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.