Caren Chesler

An award-winning journalist, Caren Chesler has spent half her 30-year career as a general news reporter and the other half covering business. In that time, she’s written about topics as diverse as racial profiling on the New Jersey Turnpike to the newest trends in private equity investing.

Featured Blog:

Suburban Diary
Blog by Caren Chesler - 2025
 
 

Featured Articles:

Alexa, Please Ignore My Husband
The New York Times Modern Love column - May 4, 2018
 
 
 
 
"The Lure of Emotionally-Complex Video Games"
Undark - November 3, 2021
 
 

Blogs:

The Dancing Egg
An IVF Story for the Over 40 Crowd

by the Society of Professional Journalists,
New Jersey Chapter
 

Awards:

After child's suicide, parents can be engulfed in self-blame and guilt
The Washington Post - July 15, 2023

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors
AI's New Frontier: Connecting grieving loved one's with the deceased
The Washington Post - Nov. 12, 2022

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors
 
I Fought (and Lost) the Battle
Against Christmas

Salon - Dec. 22, 2014

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors
The Coward
Aeon Magazine - Oct. 30, 2014

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors
The Blood of the Crab
Popular Mechanics - Apr. 13, 2017
 

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors
What Makes a Jewish Mother
The New York Times - June 3, 2013

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors (ASJA)
Undercover Online
Popular Mechanics - April, 2011

by the American Society of
Journalists and Authors
In It Together
New Jersey Monthly - Feb. 8, 2010

by the New Jersey Chapter of
the Society of Professional Journalists