Charles Forelle

Reporter, Wall Street Journal
February 12, 2007 - 4:00pm
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About Charles Forelle

Charles Forelle is a reporter in The Wall Street Journal’s Boston bureau, and reports to Gary Putka. He joined the Journal as an intern in June 2002. In February 2004, Mr. Forelle, along with Journal colleagues June Kronholz, Robert Tomsho, Daniel Golden, Robert S. Greenberger, Sholnn Freeman and Matt Murray, was awarded first place in the “Breaking or Hard News” category for the Education Writers Association’s 2003 National Awards for Education Reporting. The team won for a series of four stories that covered the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that redefined whether and how universities could practice affirmative action in their admission policies.

While Mr. Forelle attended Yale University, he interned at both The New York Observer and The Miami Herald.

Born in New York, Mr. Forelle received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Yale, where he was managing editor of the Yale Daily News from 2000 to 2001. He currently resides in Boston.