About Temma Ehrenfeld

Writing: "Over several years, Temma contributed dozens of science stories to Newsweek International, which I edited. Most of them came from ideas she hatched herself (she's got a good eye for a story), some of them were news of the week stories. Regardless, Temma pursued each story with tenacious reporting and delivered it with a consistently smooth writing style. She is also a pleasure to work with." Fred Guterl, Assistant Managing Editor, Newsweek International

"I had the pleasure of serving as Temma Ehrenfeld's editor for two years at Newsweek, and during that time I found her to be a talented and thorough reporter. With her broad range of expertise--from personal finance, to health and science, to social issues--Temma brought a rich, original perspective to her story ideas and her writing. She can talk to CEOs and top economists in their language as easily as she can the man-on-the-street, and it is because of this talent that I entrusted her with one of the section's most important assignments, the Business Roundtable, in which Newsweek surveys the biggest minds in the world of business on the critical economic issues of the day. Temma approached the assignment with gusto--and she always delivered. On top of all this, Temma is sweet, intelligent, interesting and funny. In short, she is one of a kind."
David Jefferson, former Science and Technology Editor, Newsweek.

Research and Reporting for Others: "Temma and I have had a long professional and personal relationship and I would hire her anytime for anything. She free-lanced for my syndicated Washington Post column and then joined Newsweek, where she worked as the sole reporter for my Newsweek column. The column focused on personal finance, which took her into many areas of reporting: health insurance and health care policy, estate planning, investing, retirement plans and policy, college investing, mortgages, and a variety of family money issues. She is a fine reporter, who does her work with great intelligence and care. " Jane Bryant Quinn, Contributing Editor, Newsweek; Columnist, Bloomberg

Editing: "Thank you again for all the useful suggestions--wording changes, clarifications, additions and subtractions--that you've provided over the years and that improved my column's readability and logic. You improved the column both substantively and stylistically." Robert Samuelson, Columnist, Newsweek