Deborah Solomon

Deborah Solomon is a reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of The Wall Street Journal, covering economic policy. Previously, she covered the Securities and Exchange Commission and financial regulation. Ms. Solomon joined the Journal’s New York bureau in May 2000, covering technology and telecommunications.

In 2009, Ms. Solomon and other Journal reporters won an award from the Society of American Business Editor and Writers in the breaking news category for articles that ran in the paper covering the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In the same year she was also part of a team that won in the spot news category at the annual National Headliner Awards for coverage of Wall Street’s collapse. Most recently, Ms. Solomon and other Journal reporters were finalists in the National Affairs category for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize.

In 2003, Ms. Solomon was a member of a team of Journal reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a series of stories that exposed corporate scandals, elucidated them and brought them to life in compelling narratives. Ms. Solomon and a Journal colleague won the Society of American Business Editors and Writers award in the spot enterprise category for their page-one story “Uncooking the Books.” She was also part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb Award for the paper's coverage of the WorldCom scandal.

Ms. Solomon began her journalism career as a reporter at the Birmingham Post Herald in 1994, moved to the Detroit Free Press in February 1997, joined the San Diego Union Tribune in May 1998 and five months later moved to the San Francisco Chronicle. Before joining the Journal, she had been a reporter for USA Today since November 1999.

Ms. Solomon earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from George Washington University.

Professional affiliations

New York Times