Wall Street Journal reporter Sean McLain has left the news organization to become senior group manager for enterprise storytelling and editorial strategy at Hyundai Motor Co.
He had been covering Tesla and robotaxis beat, and previously covered Amazon out of the Los Angeles bureau.
Before moving to Los Angeles, McLain was a foreign correspondent in New Delhi and Tokyo. While he was based in he, Sean covered Japanese car companies.
McLain is the co-author of “Boundless,” a book about Carlos Ghosn, and was awarded the Malcolm Forbes Award by the Overseas Press Club of America for his coverage of the arrest and detention of the former Nissan and Renault chief. The book served as the basis of a documentary miniseries about Ghosn’s career, arrest and flight from Japan.
He is a graduate of St. John’s College.
