Meet Our Team

James Carberry began his career as a reporter with the Berkeley Gazette and later worked as an investigative reporter with the Riverside Press-Enterprise. He reported for the Wall Street Journal for 10 years from Los Angeles and New York, covering real estate, the oil and gas industry, and other beats. He then traveled in Asia as the Singapore-based correspondent for a global oil industry newsletter and later founded his own communication firm. A cofounder of PNC, he now lives in Barcelona, Spain.

Joann Lublin remains a regular Wall Street Journal contributor following her nearly 47-year career there in five cities. She shared its 2003 Pulitzer Prize, long covered management issues and initiated its career advice column, which ran until May 2020. She has written two books about female executives, published in 2016 and 2021. The first was “Earning It: Hard-Won Lessons from Trailblazing Women at the Top of the Business World.” The latest is “Power Moms: How Executive Mothers Navigate Work and Life.”

Bridget O’Brian spent 18 years at the Wall Street Journal, including more than 12 as a reporter covering airlines, travel, Wall Street, and mutual funds. She later was stationed in CNBC’s newsroom and responsible for coordinating content-sharing between the two outlets. O'Brian started her career as a reporter for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans; after leaving the Journal she worked as a section editor at CNN Business and as editor-at-large at Columbia University’s Office of Communications and adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School.

Kate Ortega spent more than 24 years at the Wall Street Journal, leaving in 2024 after six years as assistant managing editor for operations. In that role she was responsible for working with non-news departments to ensure newsroom needs were met. She transitioned the news staff to remote work ahead of the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and back to the office afterward, and assisted in the evacuation of local colleagues from Kabul as the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan in 2021.

John Simons worked at the Wall Street Journal for five years ending in 2021 in roles including deputy health & science editor, energy editor and bureau chief, and was a reporter covering the economy, FCC and tech policy in the Washington bureau from 1996 to 2000. He also worked at the International Business Times, the Associated Press, Black Enterprise, U.S. News & World Report and Fortune before joining TIME as executive editor in 2021. He is now a partner at the New York office of Brunswick Group.

Pauline Yoshihashi started her career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, detouring through Wall Street and a subsequent management stint at an internet IPO. Now she specializes in strategic and financial communications, transactions/M&A, crisis management, and media relations. She draws on her experience in news, investment banking and management to help public and private companies and their leaders connect with their most important audiences.