Speaker Profile
Molly Ball
Senior political correspondent
| Molly Ball is The Wall Street Journal’s senior political correspondent, covering campaigns, the White House, Congress, political personalities and policy debates across America. She is also a frequent television and radio commentator and the author of Pelosi, a bestselling biography of the first woman Speaker of the House. Prior to joining the Journal, she covered U.S. politics for Time magazine, the Atlantic, Politico and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She has worked for newspapers in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Cambodia, as well as The New York Times and The Washington Post. She has received numerous awards for her political coverage, including the Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting. Ball is a graduate of Yale University and a former Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan, and once won $100,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? She grew up in Idaho and Colorado and lives in the Washington, D.C., area with her husband and three children. |
