Media Career
Westheimer travelled the world, and made a habit of visiting the Baltimore Sun's foreign bureaus, as he believed that the staff would give him better sightseeing and dining advice than the travel agencies. This led to a chance meeting at a luncheon with editor Louis Rukeyser, then chief of The Sun's London bureau, which in turn led to Westheimer writing for the paper. He later had a regular financial column, Ticker, writing more than 2,300 columns from February 22, 1977 to December 28, 2001, along with many feature articles.
When Rukeyser started a syndicated television show about the stock market, he invited Westheimer to appear, which led to regular appearances on the PBS show Wall $treet Week for 29 years from 1971. In 1975, Westheimer began giving financial advice on Baltimore's WMAR TV station. He was employed as WBAL-TV 11's financial analyst in 1981, and began presenting daily financial and investment reports on WBAL Radio in 1982. He was inducted into Research magazine's Broker Hall of Fame in 1994.
He continued as WBAL's financial analyst until his retirement in 2004, presenting morning broadcasts on News Today. From 2004, he began appearing on Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR-FM in a feature called Julius Westheimer's Money Minute, airing twice daily.
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