Deborah Solomon is a reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of The Wall Street Journal, covering the Securities and Exchange Commission and financial regulation. Ms. Solomon joined the Journal’s New York bureau in May 2000, covering the technology.

In 2003, Ms. Solomon was a member of a team of Journal reporters awarded the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for a series of stories that exposed corporate scandals, elucidated them and brought them to life in compelling narratives. Ms. Solomon and a Journal colleague won the Society of American Business Editors and Writers award in the spot enterprise category for their page-one story “Uncooking the Books.”

Ms. Solomon began her journalism career as a reporter at the Birmingham Post Herald in 1994, moved to the Detroit Free Press in February 1996, joined the San Diego Union Tribune in May 1998 and five months later moved to the San Francisco Chronicle. Prior to joining the Journal, she had been a reporter for USA Today since November 1999.

Born in the Bronx, New York, Ms. Solomon earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from George Washington University.