Mr. Jensen ranks among the best television financial correspondents. His knack is interpreting complex financial and business issues and explaining them to his audience in an easy-to-understand manner.
A 20-year veteran of NBC, Mr. Jensen has reported on every major economic event of the last three decades, and he has done it well. This highly decorated broadcaster, who also appears regularly on MSNBC and the "Today Show," won a 1994 National News Emmy for his coverage of the Midwest floods and a Media Award for Economic Understanding, among numerous other awards.
The Harvard University graduate and father of two honed his reporting skills at The New York Times, where he served six years as a reporter and editor after beginning his career at the Boston Herald-Traveler, where he rose to executive financial editor.
His most exciting stories, he says, were covering the October 1987 stock market crash and being the first Western reporter to chronicle the Kuwaiti economy after the Gulf War.
His most memorable story, however, was a one-on-one interview with The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, whom he calls the CEO of the legendary group and one of his heroes. Mr. Jagger graduated from the London School of Economics.
"One of the reasons I became a reporter was to indulge my curiosity, to meet and talk to people," Mr. Jensen says. Surely an interview with Mr. Jagger would give his curiosity some satisfaction.