Rebecca Ballhaus Biography
Rebecca Ballhaus is a Wall Street Journal reporter who focuses on the White House. In 2013, Ballhaus worked as a summer intern at The Wall Street Journal. While still a student at Brown, she began her media career as an intern at the Huffington Post.
Rebecca Ballhaus Age
She is 32 years old as of 1991, Rebecca was born in New York, New York, United States.
Rebecca Ballhaus Education
She attended Berkeley Carroll School and graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Political Science in 2013.
Rebecca Ballhaus Family
Ballhaus was born and raised in New York City, the son of German filmmaker Florian Ballhaus and screenwriter Pamela Katz. She is the granddaughter of Michael Ballhaus, a well-known German cinematographer.
Rebecca Ballhaus Career
While still a student at Brown, Ballhaus began her media career as an intern at the Huffington Post. She then became the managing editor of the university newspaper, The Brown Daily Herald.In 2013, Ballhaus worked as a summer intern at The Wall Street Journal. Three months later, she was promoted to full-time reporter at the Washington bureau, where she covered the 2016 election as a national political correspondent. Ballhaus has been covering the White House and political money since 2017. She has frequently appeared as a political expert on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Rebecca, along with other Wall Street Journal employees, earned a Pulitzer Prize in 2019 for her coverage of Trump’s directing of payments from Michael Cohen to Stormy Daniels. In 2023, she was awarded her second Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of conflicts of interest arising from stock trading among federal officials. She is the youngest journalist ever to receive multiple Pulitzers, receiving this honor at 3.
Rebecca Ballhaus Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
