Holmes and her family are moving to the San Francisco Bay area. “I will be freelancing a bit during the transition, then exploring new opportunities,” she wrote on Twitter.
Since 2014, Holmes has been writing a regular Personal Journal column on the marketing of style and changes in consumer habits, while also contributing to WSJ. Magazine, Off Duty, and other parts of The Journal.
During her tenure at The Journal, she hosted the how-to series #THIS. w/ Elizabeth Holmes, found on WSJ.com, YouTube and Aol. Prior to her current position, Holmes was a member of the corporate reporting group, regularly breaking market-moving news on major retailers and apparel makers.
Holmes covered the 2008 presidential campaign from the Journal’s Washington, D.C. office, reporting on the primary bid of Mitt Romney and the general election campaign of John McCain and Sarah Palin. She joined the Journal in 2006 as a reporting assistant on the Marketplace section.
Holmes graduated magna cum laude from St. Olaf College in Minnesota with a degree in English and economics, and received a master’s degree in journalism with honors from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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