Viveca Novak has been hired by The Wall Street Journal as its justice and judiciary editor.
She most recently was investigative editor in the D.C. bureau of McClatchy.
A native of D.C., Novak is on her second tour with the Journal. She covered the Department of Justice for the paper in the mid-1990s before spending more than a decade at Time magazine, followed by tours at the Center for Responsive Politics and FactCheck.org.
She was a recipient of the Goldsmith Award for Investigative Reporting for stories she did on the Bill Clinton campaign finance scandals.
