About Helene Cooper
Assistant bureau chief in the Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, Helene Cooper has worked for the WSJ for 12 years. She now leads a Journal team covering international economics and regulatory policy. She also is part of the WSJ’s homeland security team.
Ms. Cooper joined the WSJ in 1992, in the Journal’s Atlanta bureau, where she covered health care and regional economics. In 1994, she transferred to the Journal’s Washington bureau to cover international trade. Three years later, she was recruited to the Journal’s London bureau, where she spent two years writing about European economics and monetary union. In 1999, she returned to Washington to take over the international economics team. She was named assistant bureau chief in March, 2002.
Prior to joining the Journal in 1992, Ms. Cooper was a reporter for the Providence (R.I.) Journal-Bulletin. In 2000, Ms. Cooper won the Raymond Clapper Award for Washington reporting, and in 2001, she won the National Press Club’s Sandy Hume Award, which is presented to an outstanding journalist under the age of 35. In 2002 she won the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism award for a story she wrote about the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks.
Ms. Cooper is the editor of Daniel Pearl’s At Home In The World, Collected Writings from The Wall Street Journal, which was published by Simon and Schuster in June, 2002.