Julia-Ambra Verlaine

Julia-Ambra Verlaine is an American financial journalist. A former markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal[1] and correspondent for Bloomberg News, she was a recipient of the 2022 Gerald Loeb Award for Breaking News as part of the Journal team recognized for its coverage of the GameStop short squeeze, reporting that also received a 2022 New York Press Club Award and a 2021 Front Page Award from the Newswomen's Club of New York.[2][3][4]

Career

Verlaine holds a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University.[5] Before entering journalism, she worked on the foreign exchange desk at Barclays in London and New York.[5]

For Bloomberg News, she covered financial markets and investment banking from London, reporting that JPMorgan Chase reaped a gain of as much as $300 million amid the turmoil that followed the Swiss National Bank's removal of its currency cap in January 2015.[6] Her European coverage also included Uber's clash with taxi regulations in Brussels[7] and the November 2015 Brussels security lockdown following the Paris terror attacks.[8][9]

From the Wall Street Journal's Brussels bureau, she covered financial regulation in the European Union and the implications of Brexit for the financial industry, writing a column titled "Verlaine's Take"[10] and reporting with Max Colchester on financial firms relocating from London.[11] She joined the Journal's financial markets team in New York in 2020,[5] where she covered market turmoil during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting with colleagues including Nick Timiraos and Liz Hoffman on stress in the Treasury market and the banking system.[12][13]

In January 2021, Verlaine conducted the first interview given by Keith Gill, the trader whose Reddit posts helped drive the GameStop rally, in a front-page article datelined from Boston.[14] Her coverage of the GameStop trading frenzy, with Journal colleagues Juliet Chung, Gunjan Banerji, Caitlin McCabe, and Akane Otani, won the 2022 Gerald Loeb Award in the Breaking News category.[2][15] She appeared as herself in the 2022 Netflix documentary series Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga, which was produced in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal.[16][17]

Awards

  • Gerald Loeb Award, Breaking News (2022, shared), for "The GameStop Frenzy," The Wall Street Journal[2]
  • New York Press Club Award for Journalism, Business Reporting, National – Newspaper (2022, shared), for "The GameStop Frenzy," The Wall Street Journal[3]
  • Front Page Award, Specialized Reporting: Business (2021, shared), Newswomen's Club of New York, for The Wall Street Journal's GameStop coverage, including "Keith Gill Drove the GameStop Reddit Mania. He Talked to the Journal."[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Julia-Ambra Verlaine". The Wall Street Journal.
  2. 1 2 3 "Winners of the 2022 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson at New York City Event" (Press release). UCLA Anderson School of Management. September 30, 2022.
  3. 1 2 "The New York Press Club Awards for Journalism 2022" (PDF) (Press release). New York Press Club. May 2022.
  4. 1 2 "2021 Front Page Award Winners" (Press release). Newswomen's Club of New York. January 11, 2022.
  5. 1 2 3 "Verlaine moves to WSJ's financial markets team". Talking Biz News. February 19, 2020.
  6. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (January 27, 2015). "JPMorgan Said to Reap Up to $300 Million Gain Amid Swiss Turmoil". Bloomberg News.
  7. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (October 12, 2014). "Uber Insists 'Ceci N'est Pas Un Taxi' in City of Magritte". Bloomberg News.
  8. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (November 21, 2015). "Belgium Warns of Imminent Terror Attack, Closes Brussels Metro". Bloomberg News.
  9. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (November 22, 2015). "Ghost Town Brussels Loses Business as Terror Keeps People Inside". Bloomberg News.
  10. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (May 26, 2017). "Verlaine's Take: Brexit Has Silver Lining for EU Regulator". The Wall Street Journal.
  11. ↑ Colchester, Max; Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (July 6, 2017). "How to Dodge the Bonus Cap—and Other Perks for Firms Quitting London". The Wall Street Journal.
  12. ↑ Timiraos, Nick; Hoffman, Liz; Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (March 12, 2020). "Wall Street Plunge Stresses Banks, Treasury Markets". The Wall Street Journal.
  13. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra (April 24, 2020). "Banks Could Prove Weak Partner in Coronavirus Recovery". The Wall Street Journal.
  14. ↑ Verlaine, Julia-Ambra; Banerji, Gunjan (January 29, 2021). "Keith Gill Drove the GameStop Reddit Mania. He Talked to the Journal". The Wall Street Journal. p. A1.
  15. ↑ "NY Times, WSJ both take home three Loeb Awards". Talking Biz News. September 30, 2022.
  16. ↑ Meek, Andy (September 28, 2022). "Two Fascinating New Netflix Documentaries To Put On Your Watch List". BGR.
  17. ↑ Lowry, Brian (September 28, 2022). "'Eat the Rich: The GameStop Saga' review: Netflix presents the David-vs.-Goliath battle that roiled Wall Street". CNN.
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