Jeanne Cummings served as a deputy bureau chief in Washington for The Wall Street Journal from 2015 until 2024. She previously served as The Journal’s political editor, overseeing coverage of the 2016 presidential race and 2018 midterm elections.

Before rejoining The Journal, she was a founding member of POLITICO and served as assistant managing editor in charge of enterprise. She wrote a regular column, “Pitboss,” that focused on the connections between business and politics. Cummings won acclaim in 2008 for breaking the story about the Republican National Committee’s $150,000 in wardrobe payments for then-GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

In her first tour at The Journal, she spent 10 years covering Congress and the White House and won the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence in White House Coverage in 2000. 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.

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