Jenn Abelson

Jenn Abelson is a business reporter for Boston.com and the Boston Globe,

New England's largest newspaper. She covers the retail

sector,consumer spending, the business of sports, and

other financial matters.

Abelson's investigation of the treatment of illegal workers

at the Upper Crust Pizzeria chain won two awards from the

Society of American Business Editors and Writers in the

investigative and feature writing categories in 2010. The

series also took third place in the 2010 National

Headliner Competition for Business News Coverage.

Abelson was selected as a Spring 2010 Jefferson Fellow by the East-West Center and traveled to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Jakarta to explore the new realities in Asia in light of the economic crisis and environmental challenges.

Over the past several years, she has written extensively about the global recession and the way it has reshaped consumers and businesses locally and around the world.

In 2008, Abelson traveled to Beijing and Shanghai to write about the hopes of US merchants, such as Reebok and Staples, to strike gold by ramping up their expansion into China during the Olympics.

As the Madoff scandal broke in late 2008, Abelson flew to Florida to write about Robert Jaffe, a debonair middle man from Boston who brought wealthy clients to the alleged mastermind of the $50-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. She was a principal contributor to reports on the Madoff scandal that took second place in the 2009 National Headliner competition in the News Beat Coverage/Continuing Story. Her coverage of Madoff and the global economic crisis also won two Boston Globe Impact Awards.