The Wall Street Journal has named Emily Stephenson as its economic policy editor.
She has been editing economic policy coverage stories and previously was deputy politics editor at The Journal.
Stephenson previously was at Politico as a news editor from 2017 to 2019. Stephenson started her career at Reuters as a summer intern in 2010 in Chicago before moving to the Washington bureau, where she covered financial regulation and was a team leader on the speed team.
She then moved to the campaign team in the fall of 2015 and made her mark with a number of deeply reported stories, including a piece during the campaign delving into Ted Cruz’s most famous Supreme Court case, a scoop on the details of Trump’s tax plan and a report in 2012 that used data to dive into the impact of U.S. Postal Service closings.
She is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
