Jessica Hall is a retirement reporter for MarketWatch. She was an Age Boom Academy Fellow at Columbia University and completed the Leadership Exchange on Ageism. She previously worked at Mainebiz, the Portland Press Herald and the Maine Sunday Telegram, where she and her team earned a Scripps Howard Award for Community Journalism for a series on aging. She spent 17 years at Reuters, covering mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications, and airlines. She started her career in Baltimore at the Daily Record and the Baltimore Business Journal. She has also written for Barron’s and other publications.