Liz Webber Jeopardy Profile: Age, Job, Family, Stats

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Liz Webber is a New York City-based journalist, editor and digital-news specialist with roughly 17 years of professional journalism experience across newspapers, magazines, online publications and newsletters. She appears on Jeopardy! as a contestant from New York, New York, where the show identifies her simply as a Journalist. Her career has included senior editorial positions at The Wall Street Journal, Quartz, Entrepreneur and Supermarket News, along with earlier work in travel journalism and freelance writing.

Most recently, Webber worked at The Wall Street Journal, where she became closely involved with the newspaper’s newsletter strategy, operations and audience development. She joined the Journal in 2022 as a Deputy Newsletter Editor, working across its newsletter portfolio and helping launch new email products in cooperation with newsroom, product, marketing and sales teams. She helped develop and lead best-practices training for approximately 75 newsletter writers, tracked newsletter analytics, surveyed thousands of readers and worked with product teams on new newsroom tools and projects.

Her work at the Journal included helping launch WSJ Travel, editing the weekly travel newsletter and managing limited-run email products and the Journal’s Email Challenge series. Her responsibilities evolved into broader digital operations and strategy, and professional directories have subsequently identified her as a Digital Operations Manager. She also contributed journalism to the Journal, including work associated with its Careers & Leadership coverage.

In late 2026, Webber announced that she had been laid off from The Wall Street Journal, describing it as the first layoff of her 17-year journalism career. Looking back on her Journal tenure, she highlighted work involving luxury-home coverage, the Future of Everything innovation section and leading strategy and operations for the newspaper’s newsletter portfolio. She said she intended to use the transition to explore what she wanted to do next professionally, particularly work involving creativity, words, storytelling and connection.

Before joining the Journal, Webber spent approximately four years at Quartz. She joined as a Senior News Curator and was promoted to Deputy Email Editor in November 2020. Her work there combined journalism, audience development and digital publishing. She programmed the Quartz homepage and app, wrote and edited the Asia edition of the Daily Brief, prepared push notifications and morning news briefings, edited the Weekly Obsession newsletter and analyzed homepage traffic using Google Analytics.

At Quartz, Webber also collaborated with product teams to develop internal publishing tools and occasionally wrote longer features and editions of the publication’s Obsession newsletters. She was additionally involved with the company’s diversity committee, reflecting responsibilities extending beyond her daily editorial workload.

From 2017 to 2018, Webber worked as Insights Editor at Entrepreneur.com. In that role she oversaw Entrepreneur’s large contributor network, managing hundreds of outside contributors. She reviewed pitches, recruited writers, edited submissions and tracked their performance using analytics. She also managed a team consisting of staff and freelance editors.

Her Entrepreneur work included writing and appearing in the site’s “3 Things” daily news videos and collaborating with developers on technology intended to improve editorial workflows and the contributor experience. She created a newsletter for Entrepreneur contributors, helped select content partners for the launch of Women Entrepreneur, and contributed to the launch of Entrepreneur Europe in 2018.

Immediately before Entrepreneur, Webber spent about five years with Supermarket News. She joined as a content producer and Fresh Market editor and was promoted to Senior Digital Editor in 2014. She oversaw print and online production for the Fresh Market section, managed freelance writers and produced and edited articles. Her work extended into multimedia projects, interactive graphics, social-media management and audience analytics.

Webber’s Supermarket News work earned industry recognition as part of the publication’s editorial operation. The publication was named a finalist for a Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Media Brand, recognizing overall editorial excellence across print and digital products. She was also singled out by Food Dive in 2013 as one of a group of food journalists worth following on social media.

Earlier in her career, Webber worked for ShermansTravel.com from 2009 to 2012, eventually becoming an Associate Editor. Her responsibilities included assigning freelancers, writing travel features and blog posts, producing photo slideshows, managing interns, publishing material through a content-management system and producing the site’s Trip Ideas email newsletter.

Webber’s journalism career actually began before college ended. During her senior year of high school, she wrote a biweekly newspaper column called “Through the Eyes of a Senior” for her local newspaper in New Fairfield, Connecticut. She also contributed occasional editorials to her high-school newspaper.

While studying journalism, she accumulated internships with Passport Magazine, Stage Directions, New York Resident/Hamptons Resident, Inc.com, FastCompany.com and BudgetTravel.com. Those assignments covered everything from theater and travel to business, environmental topics, entrepreneurship and local reporting.

Her first full professional experience after college took her internationally. Webber has said that her first post-college journalism job was with the International Herald Tribune in Paris. Her writing has subsequently appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Women’s Wear Daily, Inc., Fast Company, BusinessNews Daily and BizBash, in addition to the outlets where she has held staff positions.

Webber earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and History from New York University in 2008, graduating summa cum laude. She completed an honors thesis titled “Sun City,” earned a minor in Computer Applications, spent the fall 2006 semester studying in London and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter of New York.

Several years into her career, she returned to graduate study while continuing to work full-time. Webber enrolled in the online communications program at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, earning a Master of Science in Communications in 2017 with a concentration in Journalism Innovation. Her capstone project examined ways of reimagining the digital news subscription model.

That education complements a career particularly focused on the intersection of journalism, technology, product development and audience engagement. Webber has experience with SEO, content-management systems, newsletter development, audience analytics, digital publishing, interactive storytelling and newsroom-product collaboration. Her technical toolkit has included WordPress, HTML, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Chartbeat, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign, InCopy, JIRA, Trello and Slack.

She also speaks French at near-fluent level, an ability that fits with her early professional experience in Paris. Outside her paid career, Webber has volunteered with New York Cares since 2013, demonstrating a lengthy connection to community volunteering in New York City.

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