Louise Radnofsky
Reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Louise Radnofsky is a sports reporter for the Wall Street Journal, where she writes about legal, policy and political issues. She has reported in depth on athlete abuse, the transformation of college sports, the fight over the future of golf, the sports world’s response to Covid, and the prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia that freed basketball star Brittney Griner.
She is particularly interested in gymnastics and figure skating, and has covered those sports at four Olympic Games for the Journal, including Simone Biles’s performances in the 2016 Games in Rio and the delayed 2020 Games in Tokyo, as well as the doping scandal around Kamila Valieva that rocked the 2022 Games in Beijing.
She previously covered health policy, the White House, and immigration policy for the Journal, and she continues to live in Washington, D.C. with her family. She joined the Journal in March 2008 as a news assistant in the Washington bureau.
Louise was born in Memphis, Tenn. and grew up near London. She has bachelor's and master's degrees in history from University College, Oxford, and a master's from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.