Hannah Karp is the editorial director of Billboard. She joined Billboard as news director in 2017, after more than a decade as a staff reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where she covered the music industry in addition to a range of other beats ranging from sports and travel to consumer product business and regional economics, working in bureaus from Los Angeles to London to Brussels. Prior to joining the Wall Street Journal, she worked for Dow Jones Newswires in Sao Paulo covering the stock and currency markets. Hailing from Berkeley, California, Hannah holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.