Janet Adamy hosts cross-partisan discussions at Washington bureau
In an Oct. 12 video released alongside a companion article, The Wall Street Journal presented in-person interviews with seven midterm congressional candidates on what the outlet called “voters’ top issue: the economy.” The accompanying article, written by WSJ deputy coverage chief Janet Adamy, frames the discussions as “lively debates with congressional hopefuls from the right, the left and the independent center.”
The interviews were conducted at the WSJ’s Washington bureau, which Adamy’s article describes as sitting “a stone’s throw from the White House.” The in-person format placed the candidates at a single location rather than via remote video calls. The seven featured candidates represent a curated selection from a broader effort — Adamy’s article notes that the bureau “sat face-to-face with a stream of midterm candidates to press them on voters’ top issue,” suggesting multiple interview sessions beyond the seven surfaced in the released video.
The article positions affordability as the central question of the discussions. It refers to “America’s affordability problems” and frames the conversations around “how to solve” them. The specific positions of each candidate are presented in the video, which the companion text introduces with the instruction: “Watch this video to learn what they told us.”
The piece appears as part of the WSJ’s midterm election coverage in advance of the November congressional elections. The seven candidates are described in the article as congressional hopefuls, with their individual identities and stated economic proposals presented within the video rather than in the companion text.
Adamy, identified in the article’s biographical note, serves as the WSJ’s deputy coverage chief in Washington, where she helps run coverage of politics, policy, national security, and the U.S. justice and judiciary system. Her prior WSJ roles include politics enterprise editor and lead writer on health policy, according to the article’s author description.
She was part of the WSJ team that won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for the “Medicare Unmasked” series. Adamy has also reported on the economic and social implications of demographic change, the article notes.
Her career has also included corporate beat reporting in Chicago covering restaurants and the food industry, and earlier positions at newspapers in Detroit, Portland, Oregon, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Michigan, where she was selected to deliver her class commencement speech. Adamy has taught demographic reporting in Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and worked as an English teacher in Northern Italy.
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