Jeanne Cummings

Jeanne Cummings served as a deputy bureau chief in Washington for The Wall Street Journal from 2015 until 2024. She was responsible for daily news and analysis coverage and managing recruitment and hiring. Prior to this position, Ms. Cummings served as the Journal’s political editor, overseeing coverage of the 2016 presidential race and 2018 midterm elections.

Before rejoining the Journal, she served as the Deputy Managing Editor at Bloomberg News where she worked with White House, Congress, and the 2012 presidential election team. Ms. Cummings joined Bloomberg from POLITICO, where she was a founding member and served as Assistant Managing Editor in charge of enterprise and wrote a regular column, “Pitboss,” that focused on the connections between business and politics.  She won the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for excellence in covering the presidency in 2020.

Ms. Cummings earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in 1979, with a minor in political science.