The Wall Street Journal has hired Lily Thomas to be its mid-United States bureau chief.
Thomas has been the metro editor for the Houston Chronicle, where she led daily coverage and local news enterprise and investigative work.
She previously was assistant managing editor for news at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where her staff won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Tree of Life massacre. She taught journalism at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.
She has a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, as well as a master’s in anthropology from Brandeis University earned after working for several years on archaeological projects in Mexico.
