Rebecca Blumenstein

Rebecca Blumenstein is Deputy Editor in Chief of The Wall Street Journal, a role she assumed in January 2013. Previously, she was the Page One Editor, appointed in September 2011, and a deputy managing editor and international editor since December 2009. Rebecca has also served as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online and as the China bureau chief, overseeing China coverage for the Journal. Prior to moving to China in the summer of 2005, Rebecca served as chief of the Journal’s New York Technology Group, which covered the historic mergers and changes in technology that recast the telecommunications industry. Before that, she was the group’s deputy chief and a reporter covering AT&T Corp. and WorldCom Inc. Rebecca joined the Journal in 1995 as a reporter in the Detroit bureau, where she covered General Motors. She began her journalism career at the Tampa Tribune, and then later moved to Gannett Newspapers and Newsday, where she covered breaking news and the New York State legislature. She received a 1993 New York Newswomen’s Award for best deadline writing for her coverage of the aftermath of the Long Island Railroad shootings. In 2003, she was part of a team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for deadline writing for coverage of WorldCom. She oversaw the China team that won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 2007. Rebecca holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and social science from the University of Michigan, where she was editor in chief of the Michigan Daily. She is a 2009 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.