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. In her first tour at the Journal, she spent ten years covering Congress and the White House and won the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for excellence in covering the presidency in 2020. She also won a National Press Club award for her coverage at The Atlanta Journal Constitution of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s rise to power and the ethics investigation of him in 1995. Ms. Cummings earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland in 1979, with a minor in political science.