Elizabeth Bernstein has been a reporter for The Wall Street Journal for 13 years. For the past five years, she has written a column she created called “Bonds: On Relationships,” about the psychology of relationships. It runs every other week in the Personal Journal section of the paper.
In her column--and in real life--Elizabeth is fascinated (some could say, "obsessed") with the subject of interpersonal communication, especially between men and women.
In 2010, Ms. Bernstein received the Distinguished Column Writing Award of Excellence—awarded to the best column published in New York state—from the New York News Publishers Association. In 2009, she and her colleague, Nathan Koppel, received first-place awards from the New York News Publishers Association and from Mental Health America for their August 16, 2008 page-one story "A Death in the Family," about a schizophrenic man who killed his mother. In 2008, Elizabeth was the winner of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Excellence in Journalism Award, for her March 24, 2007 page-one story “After A Suicide, Privacy on Trial.” She also won the 2007 beat reporting award from the Deadline Club, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, for her articles on college privacy issues and students’ mental health. Additionally, in 2009, Elizabeth received an award from Mental Health America for “Timely Coverage of a Mental Health Issue” for the articles on college privacy and an honorable mention from the Education Writers Association for the same series.
Elizabeth received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Indiana University and a master’s degree in journalism with honors from Columbia University. In June, 2008, she completed a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT, which focused on brain science. And in 2009-2010 she was a Rosalyn Carter Fellow in Mental Health Journalism. She currently lives in Miami Beach, where she loves to sail, scuba dive and hang out with family and friends. This year she hopes to add a dog to the family.
