Cara Lombardo

Cara Lombardo is Wall Street Editor for The Wall Street Journal in New York. She co-leads a team of reporters that covers banking, private equity, hedge funds, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, wealth management, fintech, financial regulation and more. Prior to that, she was a deputy Wall Street bureau chief and a reporter on the team. She spent five years covering M&A and activist investing for the Journal, regularly breaking market-moving news with her colleagues on the biggest and most interesting deals and corporate clashes.

She appeared in “Icahn: The Restless Billionaire,” the HBO documentary about activist Carl Icahn, and was part of a WSJ team that won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2021 for coverage of Amazon’s business practices. She joined the Journal in 2017 and previously covered breaking news and the beverage industry.

Before that, she did political reporting for the AP, worked at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and interned on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s investigative team.

Prior to becoming a reporter, Cara worked as a Certified Public Accountant at PwC auditing banks and asset managers. She has an undergraduate and a master’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in journalism, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.