Emily Steel is the U.S. media and marketing correspondent for the Financial Times. Before joining the Financial Times in 2012, she worked as a social media editor and a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Ms. Steel has also previously reported for the St. Petersburg Times and the Shanghai Daily. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting, and she was awarded the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award as well as a Gerald Loeb Award for Online Enterprise. She holds a degree in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.