Charles Forelle


Charles Forelle is an American journalist who works for CBS News. Previously he covered business for 23 years for The Wall Street Journal where in 2023 he was named Deputy Editor-in-Chief.
He graduated from Phillips Academy, and from Yale University in 2002 where he was managing editor of the Yale Daily News.
He interned at The New York Observer and The Miami Herald.
Forelle joined The Wall Street Journal in 2002. He worked in Boston, and then Brussels. He later worked in London for the Journal, where he became European Finance Editor. In 2018 he returned came to New York to become Finance Editor.
The work of Forelle and four other WSJ staff members earned The Wall Street Journal the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The award described the series as a "creative and comprehensive probe into backdated stock options for business executives that triggered investigations, the ouster of top officials and widespread change in corporate America". The lead articles in the series submitted for the prize were published March 18, 2006; Forelle wrote one ; he and James Bandler wrote the other.
Forelle departed the Journal in October 2025, having been tapped by CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss to serve as Deputy Editor.

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