Broadcast media

Jasmine presented the debt programme for The Insider 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'.

Writing

Birtles has a daily bargains column in the Daily Express, 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:

• 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)

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".