Jasmine Birtles
Encyclopedia
Jasmine Birtles is a financial and business commentator, journalist
, TV presenter and radio presenter, author
and humourist.
Her consumer website Moneymagpie.com contains information on all aspects of making and saving money. She regularly appears on various TV and radio programmes, including GMTV
, BBC News
, This Morning
, The Wright Stuff
and Sky News
. She has presented numerous TV programmes including Homes Under the Hammer
, STV's Spend Spend Spend as well as First Time Buyers and Doctor Dosh for UKTV Style
.
for Channel 4
. She is a regular financial commentator for This Morning
, GMTV
, BBC News
, Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff
. She is also a frequent financial guest on radio programmes including You and Yours
, Radio 2
, Radio 5 Live
and BBC local radio
and commercial stations. She is currently appearing on BBC raw money alongside Dominic Littlewood
. She has also done work for the Department for Work and Pensions
, appearing in educational YouTube
videos, and the Personal Finance Education Group
as part of their 2010 'My Money Week'.
, six days a week. Furthermore she writes for a number of newspapers and magazines including The Spectator
, The Observer
, The Scotsman
, The Herald
, The Sunday Times
, She magazine, Red magazine, Glamour
, Essentials, Prima magazine, and iVillage
.
She is also the author of 38 books, a mix of humorous and financial titles, including the best seller A Little Book of Abuse (2000, Boxtree) and her latest publication Beat the Banks! (2010, Vermilion). Other titles include:
The writers at Moneymagpie.com have produced a series of articles on how to reduce the cost of a wedding. Jasmine has written about this issue for websites such as ukbride.co.uk,, and Moneymagpie.com have released a wedding e-book which claims to help brides and grooms save money.
Jasmine Birtles and the Moneymapie team have spoken out about the difficulties young people face in trying to get onto the property ladder. Birtles appeared on Channel 4 News to discuss the pros and cons of renting your home.
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, TV presenter and radio presenter, author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and humourist.
Her consumer website Moneymagpie.com contains information on all aspects of making and saving money. She regularly appears on various TV and radio programmes, including GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...
, BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, This Morning
This Morning (TV series)
This Morning is a British daytime television programme broadcast on ITV. As of September 2011, its main presenters are Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, with various other presenters standing in for illness or contributing to sections of the programme.The...
, The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....
and Sky News
Sky News
Sky News is a 24-hour British and international satellite television news broadcaster with an emphasis on UK and international news stories.The service places emphasis on rolling news, including the latest breaking news. Sky News also hosts localised versions of the channel in Australia and in New...
. She has presented numerous TV programmes including Homes Under the Hammer
Homes Under the Hammer
Homes Under the Hammer is a BBC One morning television series, which has been running since 2003. Its main presenters are Lucy Alexander and Martin Roberts, although in series three Marc Woodward and Jasmine Birtles alternated presenting duties with Alexander and Roberts...
, STV's Spend Spend Spend as well as First Time Buyers and Doctor Dosh for UKTV Style
UKTV Style
Home is an interior home and garden-oriented lifestyle television channel broadcasting in the United Kingdom, as part of the UKTV network of channels. The channel originally launched on 1 November 1997 and relaunched in it's current format on 30 April 2009...
.
Broadcast media
Jasmine presented the debt programme for The InsiderThe Insider (TV series)
The Insider is an American tabloid television news program covering events and celebrities. It debuted on September 13, 2004 as a spinoff of Entertainment Tonight and started as a popular segment that took viewers "behind closed doors" and gave them "inside" information...
for Channel 4
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...
. She is a regular financial commentator for This Morning
This Morning (TV series)
This Morning is a British daytime television programme broadcast on ITV. As of September 2011, its main presenters are Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, and Ruth Langsford and Eamonn Holmes, with various other presenters standing in for illness or contributing to sections of the programme.The...
, GMTV
GMTV
GMTV was the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc. in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end...
, BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
, Channel 5 News and The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff
The Wright Stuff is a British television chat show, hosted by Matthew Wright, and currently airing on Channel 5 each weekday morning from 9:15 to 11:10am....
. She is also a frequent financial guest on radio programmes including You and Yours
You and Yours
You and Yours is a British radio consumer affairs programme, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.-History:It began broadcasting in October 1970, its first presenter was Joan York. In the great rescheduling of April 1998 it was increased from a 25 minute programme to 55 minutes. In the 1980s it briefly ran...
, Radio 2
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is best described as Adult Contemporary or AOR, although the station is also noted for its specialist broadcasting of other musical genres...
, Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that specialises in live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries...
and BBC local radio
BBC Local Radio
BBC Local Radio is the BBC's regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of 40 stations. They cover a variety of areas with some serving a city and surrounding areas, for example BBC Radio Manchester; a county, for example BBC Radio Norfolk; an administrative region for...
and commercial stations. She is currently appearing on BBC raw money alongside Dominic Littlewood
Dominic Littlewood
Dominic Littlewood is an English television presenter and journalist.-Biography:Littlewood attended St Thomas More High School for Boys, Westcliff-on-Sea from 1981 to 1986. Littlewood was diagnosed as diabetic in his teenage years, and takes insulin to keep his diabetes under control...
. She has also done work for the Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions is the largest government department in the United Kingdom, created on June 8, 2001 from the merger of the employment part of the Department for Education and Employment and the Department of Social Security and headed by the Secretary of State for Work and...
, appearing in educational YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
videos, and the Personal Finance Education Group
Personal Finance Education Group
The Personal Finance Education Group is a UK educational charity focused on equipping young people with confidence, skills and knowledge in financial matters, particularly personal finance. It was founded in 2000 and receives support from both government and business...
as part of their 2010 'My Money Week'.
Writing
Birtles has a daily bargains column in the Daily ExpressDaily Express
The Daily Express switched from broadsheet to tabloid in 1977 and was bought by the construction company Trafalgar House in the same year. Its publishing company, Beaverbrook Newspapers, was renamed Express Newspapers...
, six days a week. Furthermore she writes for a number of newspapers and magazines including The Spectator
The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
, The Observer
The Observer
The Observer is a British newspaper, published on Sundays. In the same place on the political spectrum as its daily sister paper The Guardian, which acquired it in 1993, it takes a liberal or social democratic line on most issues. It is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper.-Origins:The first issue,...
, The Scotsman
The Scotsman
The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....
, The Herald
The Herald (Glasgow)
The Herald is a broadsheet newspaper published Monday to Saturday in Glasgow, and available throughout Scotland. As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 47,226, giving it a lead over Scotland's other 'quality' national daily, The Scotsman, published in Edinburgh.The 1889 to 1906 editions...
, The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times
The Sunday Times is a British Sunday newspaper.The Sunday Times may also refer to:*The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times *The Sunday Times...
, She magazine, Red magazine, Glamour
Glamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
, Essentials, Prima magazine, and iVillage
IVillage
iVillage, Inc. is a media company that is owned by NBCUniversal. The site focuses on categories targeted at women, including Food, Health, Entertainment, Family, Beauty & Style. Additional businesses and brand extensions within iVillage Networks include iVillage UK, NBC Digital Health Network,...
.
She is also the author of 38 books, a mix of humorous and financial titles, including the best seller A Little Book of Abuse (2000, Boxtree) and her latest publication Beat the Banks! (2010, Vermilion). Other titles include:
- A Woman's Little Instruction Book (1995, Boxtree)
- Do You Still Miss Your Ex-Husband? Yes But My Aim Is Improving. (1996, O'Mara)
- A Parent's Little Instruction Book (1996, Boxtree)
- 1001 Knock Knock Jokes (1998, Robinson)
- The Little Book of Excuses (2001, Boxtree)
- A Girl’s Best Friend Is Her Money (2002, Boxtree)
- A Little Book of More Abuse (2002, Boxtree)
- A Bit on the Side, 500 Ways to Boost your Income (2005, Piatkus)
- Money Book: Control Your Money, Control Your Life (2006, Piatkus)
- The Money Magpie (2009, Vermilion)
Public speaker
As a public speaker, Birtles has hosted conferences for a wide variety of companies and organisations including BT, IBM, Ernst and Young, Barclays Stockbrokers, Sainsbury’s, Egg and Abbey National. Her one-woman show - a humorous take on money management - which she launched at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2005 is called "How to be Rich Without Really Trying".Moneymagpie.com
Birtles says she founded Moneymagpie.com in 2007, “to be a fun, easy-to-follow guide to managing the money you have, making more of it and living a richer life all round”. The company owning Moneymagpie.com, Moneymagpie Ltd, was registered on September 5th 2006.Content
There are 1400 feature articles on the Moneymagpie website. These focus on ways to make extra money and ways to save money on bills and other expenses. There is a forum with 1346 members, and an option to sign up to a weekly 'bargain alert' email. Each month, Moneymagpie.com updates its list of restaurant voucher codes.Campaigns
Jasmine Birtles has spoken publicly about her belief that many people are paying too much for their mobile phone contracts. She has endorsed Mobilife, a tool which analyses mobile telephone bills.The writers at Moneymagpie.com have produced a series of articles on how to reduce the cost of a wedding. Jasmine has written about this issue for websites such as ukbride.co.uk,, and Moneymagpie.com have released a wedding e-book which claims to help brides and grooms save money.
Jasmine Birtles and the Moneymapie team have spoken out about the difficulties young people face in trying to get onto the property ladder. Birtles appeared on Channel 4 News to discuss the pros and cons of renting your home.
Monetisation
The main way the site makes money is through affiliate links. If a link on the site is in a bold typeface, it generates some revenue for Moneymagpie.com each time a visitor clicks on it. Birtles claims that this use of affiliate links does not affect the objectivity of the articles on the site.Clever Video Production
Birtles set up a video production company, Clever Video Production, in 2011.External links
- Jasmine Birtles Official website
- Moneymagpie
- raw - money BBC