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WSJ reporter Langley departs

January 13, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Karen Langley, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal who wrote about the stock market and Warren Buffett, has left the news organization.

She had been at The Journal for six years.

Karen Langley

Langley had previously worked as a state Capital reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she covered
Pennsylvania’s governor and legislature, annual state budgets and public pension debates.

As a student at the University of Notre Dame, where she graduated cum laude in 2008, she wrote and edited for the student-run daily newspaper, The Observer. She went on to intern at The Philadelphia Inquirer and then joined the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, where she worked as a reporter for three years before moving to Harrisburg, Pa.

Langley also is a graduate of the Knight-Bagehot program at Columbia University.

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