About Kathy Chu

Kathy Chu is a business reporter who has led USA TODAY's credit card and banking coverage since 2005. Before working at the paper, she covered personal finance and corporate bankruptcies for Dow Jones News Service, and wrote for the Wall Street Journal and Newsday. Her features about Hurricane Katrina's economic toll on the Gulf Coast won her a 2008 award from the Association for Women in Communications and a piece about employees signing away their right to sue won a 2004 Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York. Chu was also a finalist in 2006 for the ONA Online Journalism Award for her "Couples and Cash" series. Along with USA TODAY colleagues Sandra Block and John Waggoner, she authored "The Busy Family's Guide to Money," published in 2008. She has a masters of science in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor of arts from the University of California, Berkeley.

Writing

Content on this site written by Kathy Chu (includes contributory writing):

  • Projects

    • Youth Radio
    • Hip hop. Rhythm. Rock. The voice of the urban street. Oakland teens find in Youth Radio a home away from home. And much more. For thousands, the towering red-brick building ...