
Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Kiernan has moved to Los Angeles to cover the California economy.
He previously has been covering the U.S. economy out of Washington, D.C., with a focus on immigration and labor. He also contributes to coverage of the Federal Reserve, politics and general news.
Before moving to Washington in 2018, Kiernan spent more than a decade as a correspondent in Mexico and Brazil for Dow Jones Newswires and the Associated Press.
Kiernan is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.