John R. Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, the pre-eminent newspaper of the financial community in the United States.

In 2002, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for his coverage of the unfolding Enron scandal with Rebecca Smith.

Ms Smith and Mr. Emshwiller are the co-authors of a book on that scandal, 24 Days.

He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Californian, the U.C. Berkeley student newspaper, in Spring 1971. An editorial written during his tenure has been attributed by many people as the cause the People's Park riot. As an outgrowth of that event, and during his tenure, the University and the Daily Californian severed the University's official sponsorship, and the newspaper became an independent off-campus newspaper.