WSJ investigative reporter Mullins is leaving

Brody Mullins

Brody Mullins, an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal where he covers business, lobbying and campaign finance, is leaving the paper when he finishes his last story.

“When that story runs, I will leave the WSJ,” said Mullins in an email. “I have a book coming out May 7 called ‘The Wolves of K Street.’ So I will spend my time promoting that book and doing media and book tours. At that point, I want to try to pitch a second book.”

He has also covered the political intelligence industry and how investors mine Washington for market-moving information.

Mullins was part of the team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for revealing financial conflicts of interest among officials at fifty federal agencies who bought and sold stocks of companies they were tasked with regulating.

Mullins started his career in Washington at National Journal’s CongressDaily and later at Roll Call, where he covered Congress and lobbying. He joined Dow Jones in March 2005 as a reporter covering tax legislation on Capitol Hill.

He is a Northwestern University graduate.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.