Len Walter

Len Walter is the Business/Financial Editor of WBBM NewsRadio 780, broadcasting daily from the trading floors of the Chicago Board of Trade, now part of the CME Group.
He joined WBBM in February of 1969.

Mr. Walter was the first journalist to receive an award for work accomplished after WBBM became an all news station. It was the prestigious “Edward R. Murrow Award,” for International Investigative Reporting. During his career, the excellence of Len’s reporting has resulted in the presentation of dozens of other awards including being recognized as “Best Radio Reporter” by the Illinois and Michigan Associated Press.

Len received his Masters Degree in Journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He received his B.A. from Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois.

Len is a highly regarded public speaker and one of the busiest in Chicago. He serves as host of numerous meetings each year for WBBM-CBS including the popular WBBM Business Breakfasts and featured speaker for corporations and business associations throughout the Midwest.

Mr. Walter is a former Registered Representative of the National Association of Securities Dealers and routinely lectures on the subject of stock market investing.

Acknowledging his extraordinary communications and financial teaching skills, Mr. Walter remains a member of the Money$mart Advisory Council. This group of community financial and civic leaders, including Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and the President of the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank, is devoted to creation of a framework to address financial literacy in the Chicago area.