The Wall Street Journal

Stephen oversees hiring and career development across the WSJ newsroom. Before taking on the role last August, Stephen served for five years as editor for professional news, managing the groups that produce WSJ Pro and Dow Jones Newswires. Prior to that he ran the WSJ's real-time news desk. Stephen joined the company in 1997 as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in São Paulo, Brazil. Among other Newswires positions, he served as Latin American editor, energy and commodities editor, Chicago/Detroit bureah chief and senior editor for the Americas. Stephen, who was born in Chile, is co-lead of MiGente@DJ, the Dow Jones community of Latino/Hispanic employees. He was raised in Wisconsin and graduated from Northwestern University, and now lives in Cranford, N.J., with his wife and two teenage sons. In his spare time, Stephen runs long distances, plays piano and cheers on Wisconsin sports teams.

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.

Megan is a senior editor on the Journal's visual storytelling team, a team tasked with delivering smart, engaging news experiences across visual-first channels like Snapchat, Google, Instagram and more, with the goal of introducing the Journal to more readers and strengthening the relationship with new and diverse audiences. Megan moved to this role after two years focused on hiring, recruiting and career development in the Managing Editor’s Office. She started at WSJ.com as an intern in 2003 and has since held a variety of digital roles around the newsroom, including previous stints as a digital editor for features sections, a senior editor of interactive graphics for WSJ.com and as the deputy editor for the Emerging Media team. Megan was selected for the Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media in 2019. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, two kids, a sweet old French bulldog and an even older gecko. Originally from Cleveland, she's a graduate of Ohio University.

Erin Ailworth is based in Chicago for the Wall Street Journal. She often can be found covering hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters and traumas nationwide. She was part of the team named Pulitzer finalists for the Journal's coverage of PG&E and the wildfires in California. Erin also helped chronicle the spread of Covid-19 via cruise ships at the start of the pandemic. She then helped lead the Journal’s coverage of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis, and the protests and violence that followed. She was previously on the Journal's energy team in Houston. Erin is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School and a lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where she served four years on the national board. Prior to the Journal, she worked at the Boston Globe, the Orlando Sentinel and the Los Angeles Times. She is an alum of METPRO and the Medill Cherubs program.