Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Foldy is leaving the news organization after seven years.
He has been on the investigations team for the past year.
In a farewell email to his colleagues, he wrote:
It’s hard to leave the only home I’ve really had in my reporting career, and it’s impossible to overstate how much I’ve learned from working alongside all of you. Whenever anyone asked me about working here, I’d inevitably say I loved it because I worked with the smartest people I knew working on ceaselessly interesting things. I’m so lucky and humbled to have gotten to be a small part of the journalistic equivalent of the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens and I will miss you dearly.
The list of people who should be thanked by name is impossibly long and it’s a Friday, so I’ll skip it in hopes that everyone knows how grateful I’ve been to have you as my colleagues. I’ll be best reached at [redacted]. I look forward to seeing you out there, and continuing to read/watch/listen to all of your fantastic work. Don’t be a stranger.
He often writes about fraud, financial crime, cryptocurrency and corporate malfeasance. He also writes about short sellers and whistleblowers.
Before this role, Foldy covered the automotive industry from Detroit, with a focus on safety, federal policy, startups and the electric transition. In this role, he covered allegations of fraud involving several startups as well as breaking news on new investments in multibillion-dollar battery plants and the industry’s struggles through the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2022, Foldy reported and hosted the second season of The Journal’s “Bad Bets” podcast, focused on the rise and fall of Nikola founder Trevor Milton.
He worked for Bloomberg News and the Financial Times before joining the Journal in 2019. He is a graduate of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and holds a B.A. and M.A. from McGill University.
