Mr. Neil King
Staff Writer
The Wall Street Journal
Neil King covers oil, OPEC and international energy issues for the Wall Street Journal. He has worked since 1999 in the Journal's Washington bureau where he has also covered foreign policy, intelligence, terrorism and international trade. He became the Journal's international energy reporter in 2007. In the 1990s he spent nearly seven years as a Journal correspondent in Europe, first in Prague and later in Brussels. During those years he covered a wide swath of subjects ranging from the post-Communist transition in Eastern Europe, the birth of the European single currency, and the war in Kosovo.
He traveled and wrote extensively throughout the Continent, reporting from Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, and frequently from the Balkans. Neil earned a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago, and a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Columbia University in New York. He was part of the Journal team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Sept. 11. He was born and grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and is married to Washington Post political reporter Shailagh Murray. They have two young daughters.
