Wall Street Journal reporter Harriet Torry has been named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University for the 2026-27 academic year.
Torry, a Houston-based U.S. economics correspondent for The Journal, will study the forces shaping labor-market outcomes, especially for women and with particular attention to the gender pay gap, in an era of profound technological change.
Previously she covered the U.S. economy and Federal Reserve from the Journal’s Washington, D.C., bureau. Torry joined the Journal in Frankfurt in 2010 as a financial reporter, before moving to Berlin to cover the German government and economy during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
Torry previously worked for Deutsche Welle and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol.
The Nieman Foundation has selected more than 1,800 journalists from 100 countries for fellowships at Harvard since its founding in 1938. Fellows audit classes across the university, collaborate with scholars and students at Harvard and MIT, and participate in Nieman seminars and workshops.
All of the incoming fellows can be found here.
