I joined The Wall Street Journal just after Labor Day in 2000, as a stock columnist, writing the Heard in Texas for the Texas Journal, one of the paper’s now-defunct regional editions. When the paper shut down the regional editions in November 2000 — about 10 weeks after I started — it laid us all off as of the end of the year. Then it hired about half of us back.
I was one of the lucky ones, and became a mutual-fund reporter in New York. A few months after moving to the city, I started working on a variety of stories with Ellen E. Schultz, already an award-winning pensions and retirement report. I continued to work closely with Ellen during my nearly eight years at the paper, even as I moved on to cover the insurance industry, hospitals, and other subjects.
I left in August 2008 to join BusinessWeek’s Washington bureau, only to be recruited back a little more than five years later, in November 2013. This time, I joined the newsroom’s corporate news bureau. I’m covering a broad range of topics, including executive pay, corporate governance, employer-sponsored healthcare and benefits, the occasional accounting story, and whatever’s in the news: trade, taxes, DEI, and more.
You can also see my latest articles on the Journal website and you can search them on Authory