Ellen Paris has worked as a business journalist, feature writer, magazine editor and personal finance columnist for almost twenty years. She spent twelve years as a staff writer with Forbes, working in the West Coast Bureau in Los Angeles where she covered marketing, real estate, health care, personal finance, small business and retailing. Besides corporate and entrepreneurial profiles and investigative pieces, she also wrote lifestyle and travel features. Paris wrote the “management smarts” column for Entrepreneur for three years. In addition, as personal finance columnist for the past four years for Palm Springs Life she writes the magazine’s “Wealth” column. She is also editor of Palm Desert Magazine, a luxury lifestyle publication.
Paris’ versatility as an experienced writer is evident in the variety of publications she’s written for throughout her career. These include, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Kiplinger Personal Finance Magazine, Estates West, and California Homes, California Association of Realtors, Hawaii Investor Magazine, Island Business Magazine, Asia, Inc, Denver Post, Washington Times, Palm Springs Life and Palm Desert Magazine.
Paris has years of experience contacting and securing interviews with high net worth and high profile individuals, CEOs, politicians, celebrities and respected industry experts from Wall Street to Washington. She knows how to research, report, edit and write for both targeted industry audiences and a wide variety of readers. Paris has written extensively on real estate, personal finance, small business, health care, corporate management, marketing and economic development, architecture, and interior design from California to Honolulu to Washington DC for almost two decades.