Emily Stephenson of The Wall Street Journal has moved to editing economic policy coverage stories.
She previously was deputy politics editor at The Journal.
Stephenson previously was at Politico as a news editor from 2017 to 2019. Stephenson started her career at Reuters as a summer intern in 2010 in Chicago before moving to the Washington bureau, where she covered financial regulation and was a team leader on the speed team.
She then moved to the campaign team in the fall of 2015 and made her mark with a number of deeply reported stories, including a piece during the campaign delving into Ted Cruz’s most famous Supreme Court case, a scoop on the details of Trump’s tax plan and a report in 2012 that used data to dive into the impact of U.S. Postal Service closings.
She is a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate.
