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Name
Jo Craven McGinty
Title
Senior Editor, Talent
Bio
Jo Craven McGinty is senior talent editor for the Wall Street Journal. Before taking that job, she spent 7 ½ years writing The Numbers column for the Journal.
Prior to that, she worked for a decade as a data reporter at the New York Times, where her subjects included disparities in hospital billings, deadly railroad crossings and favoritism among banks in the Fed’s lending program.
Earlier in her career, she was a database specialist at the Washington Post, where her work led to the 1999 Pulitzer for Public Service and the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for a series on the use of deadly force by D.C. police.
Jo has also worked as an enterprise reporter at Newsday; as a professor of computer-assisted reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism; and as adviser to Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. She began her career in North Carolina, her native state, where she worked at the Burlington Times-News, The Durham Sun and the Durham Herald-Sun.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree in English-journalism from Elon College (now Elon University) and a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
She now lives on Long Island with her husband, who is also a journalist, their teen-age son, and their oversized cat. In her spare time, she makes things.
Prior to that, she worked for a decade as a data reporter at the New York Times, where her subjects included disparities in hospital billings, deadly railroad crossings and favoritism among banks in the Fed’s lending program.
Earlier in her career, she was a database specialist at the Washington Post, where her work led to the 1999 Pulitzer for Public Service and the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting for a series on the use of deadly force by D.C. police.
Jo has also worked as an enterprise reporter at Newsday; as a professor of computer-assisted reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism; and as adviser to Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. She began her career in North Carolina, her native state, where she worked at the Burlington Times-News, The Durham Sun and the Durham Herald-Sun.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree in English-journalism from Elon College (now Elon University) and a Master's Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
She now lives on Long Island with her husband, who is also a journalist, their teen-age son, and their oversized cat. In her spare time, she makes things.
