Gerri Willis is the anchor of CNN's weekend business program, Open House, a half-hour long weekly real estate show which presents a how-to approach on all things real estate. Willis also serves as host for Issue #1, CNN's special programming focusing on the most important issue according to American voters. Currently, the program focuses on the economy, providing in-depth coverage about jobs, savings, debt and homes.
Willis also serves as the personal finance editor for CNN Business News, the division of CNN Worldwide that produces business news for CNN/U.S., CNN International, Headline News, CNN Airport Network, CNNRadio and the Web site CNN/Money.com. As personal finance editor, Willis offers viewers’ life improvement tips in her daily "Gerri's Top Tips" segment. Her monthly column, "Home Economics," appears in Money magazine.
Prior to joining CNN Business News in March 2003, Willis was the senior financial correspondent for Smart Money magazine. She attended Columbia Business School as a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in 1991-92 and was the winner of the Excellence in Retirement Savings Reporting award for 2001, which is given by the American University School of Communication and the Investment Company Institute's Education Foundation.
Her feature story, The Stock that Ate Cincinnati, was excerpted in Marshall Loeb's book, Best Business Stories of 2001. Her first book, The SmartMoney Guide To Real Estate Investing, was released in 2003; her second, Home Rich, examines how to manage home ownership into the best possible return and and was released this spring.
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