Louise Story is a financial reporter for the business section of The New York Times, where she started working full-time in September 2006. Now covering Wall Street, she previously wrote about advertising and marketing.

 Ms. Story worked as a summer reporting intern in 2005 on the business desk at The Times. She also had summer reporting internships at The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant and the Orlando Sentinel.

 Born in Atlanta, Ms. Story received her B.A. in American studies from Yale College in 2003 and her M.B.A. from the School of Management at Yale University in 2006.  She is married and lives in Connecticut.