
Dawn Nici
Former Deputy Editor
About
Dawn Nici was formally the deputy editor for consumer finance at Forbes Advisor. Her more than 20 years of experience in financial and business reporting include coverage of the New York Stock Exchange and other major economic stories in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles. She spent six years as a financial news radio anchor and host.
Dawn Nici is a consumer finance editor. Her work as a journalist has spanned several decades and has taken her across the country, with stops that included New York, Washington, D.C., Phoenix and Los Angeles.
Dawn has been a broadcaster for much of her career. She spent time as a radio news reporter in New York, where her duties often included coverage of Wall Street and other financial stories. She was a news writer for the “Imus in the Morning” program on all-sports WFAN and worked for the NBC Radio Networks and the Mutual Broadcasting System, where she produced the national wake-up program “America in the Morning.”
In addition, Dawn was the program director for Phoenix’s first all-sports radio station, started up and was news director for a local news service that employed 15 reporters, and spent three years with all-news KFWB in Los Angeles. But it was her stint as a financial news radio anchor and host that cemented her love for financial writing and reporting.
Dawn is a Strictly Financials Fellow at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and has an AP spot news reporting award. In her free time, she enjoys travel, baseball and video games.
Expertise
- Breaking news coverage
- Personal finance
- Consumer issues
Achievements
- More than 20 years as a writer, reporter and editor
- Strictly Financials Fellow at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University
- Experience interviewing business leaders and covering consumer finance topics as a financial news radio anchor and host
Education
Bachelor’s degree in journalism from New York University
Master’s degree in journalism from the University of Memphis
Honors & Awards
- Strictly Financials Fellow at the Reynolds Center for Business Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Associated Press spot news reporting award
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About
Dawn Nici was formally the deputy editor for consumer finance at Forbes Advisor. Her more than 20 years of experience in financial and business reporting include coverage of the New York Stock Exchange and other major economic stories in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles. She spent six years as a financial news radio anchor and host.