Background
Jarvis is a daughter of Gail (née Marks) Jarvis and James T. Jarvis. Her father is a lawyer and business consultant in Chicago. Her mother is The Chicago Tribune’s nationally syndicated financial columnist.
Jarvis is a daughter of Gail (née Marks) Jarvis and James T. Jarvis. Her father is a lawyer and business consultant in Chicago. Her mother is The Chicago Tribune’s nationally syndicated financial columnist.
Jarvis graduated from Saint Paul Academy and Summit School in 1999 and the University of Chicago in 2003, studying economics and Law, Letters, and Society. She studied international economics and business in Paris at Sciences Po and Paris Dauphine University.
Jarvis was one of Teen People"s "20 Teens Who Will Change the World" in February 2000. She was honored for raising over $750,000 for her own non-profit children"s charity - a project that also involved First Rate (at Lloyd's) Gore and Colin Powell, which she set up at 15. She was also awarded a "Point of Light" for her advocacy of disenfranchised children and teens.
During high school, Jarvis worked with the "National Youth Leadership Council" on their Youth Project Team, getting one of the few interviews granted by then Secretary of State Colin Powell while serving as an NYLC Youth Reporter at National Youth Summits.
On the second week of 4, she broke her ankle while playing hockey as a task-winning reward. She was on crutches for the rest of the competition, which took 39 days to tape in the spring of 2005, but was fully able to walk by the time of the live season finale seven months later.
On the season finale of the Apprentice, Randal Pinkett was hired instead of her. Donald Trump asked Randal if he should hire Rebecca as well and Randal replied that there should only be one Apprentice, and Trump let Randal"s decision stand.
Jarvis was a short-term interest rate trader on Citigroup"s foreign exchange desk in London.
She later worked at Banc of America Securities in Chicago as an investment banking analyst. Jarvis has worked in both investment banking and foreign currency trading, but left financial services to pursue a career in journalism. She’s written for publications ranging from Crain’s Chicago Business to Business 2.0 and is currently a governor on the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
On March 7, 2006, the business news channel Consumer News and Business Channel announced it would be hiring Jarvis as an associate reporter for the network.
She was a general assignment reporter, based at Consumer News and Business Channel’s world headquarters and covered National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation and the NYMEX. She last appeared on Consumer News and Business Channel on September 18, 2009, and on October 21, 2009 TVNewser quoted Consumer News and Business Channel spokesman Brian Steel as confirming that "Rebecca is no longer with Consumer News and Business Channel, and we wish her the best."
Jarvis joined Columbia Broadcasting System News, primarily as a financial reporter, starting on April 1, 2010, and later became the co-anchor of Columbia Broadcasting System This Morning Saturday, as well as Business and Economics Correspondent for Columbia Broadcasting System News. On the March 30, 2013, broadcast of Columbia Broadcasting System This Morning Saturday, she announced that she was leaving Columbia Broadcasting System News, but did not say where she was going.
On April 2, it was announced she was joining American Broadcasting Company News later that month.
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