Rebecca Jarvis
Rebecca Jarvis is ABC News’ chief business, technology and economics correspondent; a contributing anchor on “Good Morning America”; the creator and host of “The Dropout,” a top-rated podcast and documentary which chronicled the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes; and the creator and host of the “No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis” podcast, which featured in-depth interviews with female CEOs, founders and innovators.
Jarvis reports across all ABC News programs, including “Good Morning America,” “World News Tonight with David Muir,” “Nightline,” “20/20” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.” She has conducted news-making interviews with many of the world’s most influential leaders in artificial intelligence, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Anthropic President Daniela Amodei, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Her reporting has also featured exclusive conversations with some of the biggest names in business, including Tim Cook, Warren Buffett, Jamie Dimon, Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Anne Wojcicki and Mary Barra.
She was the first journalist to interview Altman following the launch of GPT-4, the first reporter to secure an interview with a Facebook executive after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and the only journalist to land a worldwide exclusive with United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz following the airline’s highly publicized passenger-removal controversy.
She has covered every presidential election since 2008, Brexit, the Great Recession, the Bernie Madoff scandal, General Motors’ bankruptcy and the fall of Lehman Brothers. Jarvis’ investigation that demonstrated the tracking capabilities of Android cellphones, often unknown to the user, was cited in Congressional hearings by the chair of the House Judiciary Committee during the testimony of Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
She is the creator and host of “The Dropout,” a podcast that follows the extensive investigation into the blood-testing startup Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes. The podcast was adapted into a Hulu original series, for which Jarvis served as an executive producer. The series earned numerous nominations and went on to win several awards.
Jarvis is a two-time Emmy® Award winner, and her contributions to ABC News have been recognized with four Edward R. Murrow Awards for Overall Excellence in Television and Radio. The Alliance for Women in Media named her one of the top business journalists in the country with its Women in Numbers Award. She is also the recipient of a duPont Award for her work covering the Newtown tragedy.
Before joining ABC News, Jarvis was co-host of “CBS This Morning: Saturday” and business and economics correspondent for CBS News. Prior to CBS News, she spent three years at CNBC, reporting on market news from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Mercantile Exchange. She contributed regularly to NBC News, including the “Today” show and “Nightly News.”
Jarvis began her journalism career writing for Crain’s Chicago Business and Business 2.0. She has also worked in investment banking and foreign currency trading.
A graduate of the University of Chicago, Jarvis holds a degree in economics and constitutional law. A recipient of the University of Chicago Dean’s Grant, she studied European banking and financial markets, as well as the formation of the European Union at the Université Sciences Po in Paris, France.
Jarvis received national recognition for her work with Colin Powell, empowering children and improving communities. She was also named a National Point of Light, receiving accolades from former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
Jarvis is a native of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and currently lives in New York City.
