Solomon leaves WSJ for PR firm Finsbury

Deborah Solomon, an editor for The Wall Street Journal in its Washington bureau, has left the newspaper.

She starts Monday with strategic communications firm Finsbury as a principal and will be based in Washington and New York.

Solomon had left the Journal in 2012 for a job at Bloomberg View, but she returned to the paper in March 2013 as an editor overseeing the financial regulatory and law enforcement groups.

Solomon previously was an economic policy reporter for The Journal in Washington. During her tenure at The Journal, she also covered the Securities and Exchange Commission, financial regulation, technology and telecommunications.

She was part of a team that received the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a series on corporate scandals.

Solomon was also part of a team at The Journal that won the Institute on Political Journalism’s prestigious Excellence in Economic Reporting Award for 2009. Their 10 articles described the turning points to last fall’s Wall Street crash and the ensuing global credit crunch.

She was also part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb Award for the paper’s coverage of the WorldCom scandal.

Solomon began her journalism career as a reporter at the Birmingham Post Herald in 1994, moved to the Detroit Free Press in February 1997, joined the San Diego Union Tribune in May 1998 and five months later moved to the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining the Journal, she had been a reporter for USA Today since November 1999.

Solomon earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from George Washington University.