Jeanne Cummings is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The Wall Street Journal, covering the White House and national politics. She also covered the 2000 presidential campaign.  Previously, she covered Congress and the 1988 congressional campaigns. From 1989 until October 1997, Ms. Cummings was a reporter for the Atlanta Constitution.

During her time at the Constitution, she covered the governor’s office and the state legislature, worked in the paper’s Washington, D.C., bureau and covered the 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns.   While based in Washington, her articles, focusing on the political/money machine that helped finance Newt Gingrich’s rise to power, ultimately led to the ethics case against him.

Ms. Cummings was awarded the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for presidential news coverage by the White House Correspondent’s Association. She received the National Press Club’s 1997 Washington Correspondent’s Award and the 1997 Cox Judge’s Award for her Newt Gingrich coverage.