Wall Street Journal reporter Melissa Korn is becoming deputy bureau chief on the media team.
Korn has been writing about higher education since 2014.
She won awards from the New York Press Club and Newswomen’s Club of New York for a 2021 investigative series on student debt.
Melissa graduated from Cornell University with degrees in English and history and has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She joined Dow Jones in 2007, first writing breaking corporate news for the Dow Jones Newswires spot news desk and then covering for-profit colleges, student lenders, alcohol and tobacco for the wire. She moved to the Journal in 2011 to cover business education, workplace issues and the college-to-career pathway.
She is co-author of “Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit and the Making of the College Admissions Scandal,” published by Penguin Portfolio in 2020.
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