Tech policy reporter Tracy among the WSJ layoffs

Tech policy reporter Ryan Tracy was among those laid off Thursday by The Wall Street Journal in its Washington bureau.

Tracy focused on the government’s interactions with the largest U.S. tech companies. His work in the Journal’s Washington bureau has spanned three presidential administrations.

Since taking on the tech beat in 2019, he has written about antitrust legislation, broadband subsidies, online speech, privacy regulation, tech industry lobbying, robocall mitigation, wireless spectrum, artificial intelligence and other topics. During the pandemic, he was part of a team covering the Paycheck Protection Program.

His previous beat at the Journal was financial regulation, where he tracked federal banking regulators’ implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act and the legislative battles to change that law. Before banking, he covered energy policy during the Obama administration, writing about solar-industry subsidies, environmental rules, and other topics.

Tracy got his start covering local government for the Times of Trenton in his native New Jersey, and also worked as a staff writer at Newsweek. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in history and has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.