Janet Adamy is an award-winning journalist who has worked in Detroit, Chicago, Portland, Ore., the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington. She writes about business, healthcare, economics, demographics, politics and religion. As the deputy coverage chief in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal, she helps run the paper’s coverage of the White House, Congress, domestic policy, elections, the U.S. justice and judiciary system and national security.

Janet was part of a team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the “Medicare Unmasked” series. She has taught demographic reporting in the graduate program of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. When she graduated from the University of Michigan, Janet was selected to deliver the commencement speech on behalf of her graduating class. She lives in Washington.