Charles Forelle

Deputy Editor in Chief 

Previously financial editor, Charles has been a reporter at the Journal since 2002, in the U.S. and Europe. He joined the Journal as an intern in Boston, where he covered education and technology companies. He and colleagues in Boston spent 2006 investigating backdated stock options in corporate America, and the resulting series won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

In 2007, Charles moved to Brussels, where he covered European Union affairs and the European financial crisis. He has reported for the Journal from countries across the region. He moved to London in 2012 and became Europe finance editor in 2015. In 2018 he became financial editor, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of financial markets and the financial industry. He was named deputy editor in chief in 2023.

Joshua Jamerson

Deputy Politics Editor

Most recently, Josh was the East Coast bureau chief on the U.S. News desk, leading coverage of national affairs in major regions of the country ranging from Boston to Miami and across the Deep South. Previously he was a national politics reporter in Washington. In that role, Joshua covered the 2022 midterm elections and the future of the U.S. political parties, spending much of his time on the campaign trail.

Joshua also covered the 2020 presidential election, including the Democratic primary. His campaign-trail reporting won a Salute to Excellence Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.

He previously covered Congress and the 2018 midterm elections. He first joined the Journal in 2016 to cover breaking corporate news from New York. He was an intern in 2014. 

Rebecca Ballhaus

Investigative Reporter

Rebecca Ballhaus is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s investigations team, based in New York. Her work focuses on politics and government and includes investigations into conflicts of interest across the federal government, harassment and abuse at federal agencies, and the role of high-dollar donors in politics.

She previously spent eight years in the Journal’s Washington bureau, covering campaign finance, politics and the Trump White House. She was part of the team that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for revealing that Donald Trump had played a central role in a series of payoffs made to women during his presidential campaign. In 2023, she was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series that revealed that thousands of senior federal employees owned stock in companies their agencies oversaw. She joined the Journal as an intern in 2013.