Wall Street Journal tech reporter Preetika Rana is leaving the news organization after 14 years.
Rana has written about CEOs turning companies around, tech billionaires’ influence on U.S. politics, and emerging technologies like self-driving cars and AI. She was first to report a new CEO at Lyft, mass layoffs at Uber during the pandemic and Airbnb’s financials before its IPO.
Previously based in Hong Kong, Rana covered health care across Asia. In a series of investigative stories from China, she unraveled the creation of the world’s first gene-edited babies and exposed how scientists leapfrogged the West to use a powerful DNA-editing technology on patients in ways that would be illegal in the U.S. Her reporting prompted an investigation in Beijing and pushed the U.S. National Institutes of Health to accelerate research.
She began her career in India reporting on women’s rights and consumer companies. She has covered a communications blackout in Kashmir, a devastating earthquake in Nepal and one of the world’s worst industrial disasters in Bangladesh.
Rana has won several awards, including from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Society of Professional Journalists and Asia Society.
She teaches a business reporting class at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
