Election editor Johnson laid off at WSJ

Kimberly Johnson, the election coverage editor at The Wall Street Journal, was laid off from the paper.

Johnson was also deputy chief news editor. In 2021, she led the Journal’s Tulsa Race Massacre project which won a New York Press Club award and was a Pulitzer finalist.

With more than 25 years of experience, Johnson joined the Journal in September 2014 as a news editor for the CFO Journal vertical, for which she also served as bureau chief.  She also held the posts of professional products editor for WSJ Pro and coverage chief of the speed and trending desk.

She was founder and proprietor of KSJ Media Services, an international, multi-faceted media consultancy focused on writing, editing and training for international media outlets and private organizations. Johnson reported and edited for Mergermarket in West Africa. She also wrote for GlobalPost.com and a number of magazines. While there, she was also a consultant for international nonprofits, Nigeria’s BusinessDay and the helped launch a digital publication focused on the continent’s construction sector, ConstructAfrica.

She worked as an auto writer at The Associated Press and was a tech and business reporter at The Denver Post. She also worked at The Boston Globe and The New Haven Register.

Johnson has a B.S. and M.S. from Boston University.