Maya Jackson Randall

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'''Maya Jackson Randall''' (1979 – February 26, 2013) was an American news reporter for ''The Wall Street Journal'' (WSJ). She had also written or edited for ''Money Magazine'', McGraw-Hill and Dow Jones Newswires. Jackson Randall died of leukemia at the age of 33.

==Biography== ===Career=== Jackson Randall was the daughter of Harold Jackson, who had been the director of the Southern Regional Press Institute at Savannah State University.<ref name="SRPI">{{cite web |title=Savannah State to Host 60th Southern Regional Press Institute {{!}} The Savannah Tribune |url=http://www.savannahtribune.com/articles/savannah-state-to-host-60th-southern-regional-press-institute/ |website=The Savannah Tribune |date=February 23, 2011}}</ref> She attended Lakeside High School in DeKalb County, Georgia, and she graduated from Howard University in 2000.<ref name=Constitution/> While in a graduate program at the University of Maryland, she interned at WSJ. Jackson wrote for ''Money Magazine'' in New York after graduate school. She then moved to McGraw-Hill in Washington, D.C., as an associate editor. She worked for Dow Jones Newswires before returning to WSJ as a consumer-finance reporter.<ref name=Fields>{{cite news|last=Fields|first=Gary|title=Journal's consumer-finance reporter remembered|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323699704578328640114503544|accessdate=March 2, 2013|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=February 26, 2013}}</ref>

Much of Jackson Randall's work involved coverage of the United States financial crisis. After she wrote several pieces on the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the US Treasury was made to reveal how the program's funds were being spent.<ref name=Constitution/> Near the end of 2011, she also reported on Barack Obama's attempts to make recess appointments, a subject that ended up before the U.S. Supreme Court.<ref name="Poynter">{{cite web |last1=Beaujon |first1=Andrew |title=In memoriam: Mary J. Corey, Maya Jackson Randall |url=https://www.poynter.org/news/memoriam-mary-j-corey-maya-jackson-randall |website=Poynter |language=en |date=February 27, 2013}}</ref>

===Illness and death=== Jackson Randall was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009. She underwent treatment and went into remission, but she experienced a relapse in 2012. Jackson Randall continued to work and write during her initial illness and her relapse. She died on February 26, 2013, in Atlanta, Georgia, where she had been receiving medical care.<ref name=Fields/> She was survived by her husband Jeremy and by her son Jeremiah, who was born in 2007.<ref name=Constitution>{{cite news|last=Burnette|first=Daarel|title=Maya Jackson Randall, 33: Atlanta native an award-winning journalist|url=http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-obituaries/maya-jackson-randall-33-atlanta-native-an-award-wi/nWd7k/|accessdate=March 2, 2013|newspaper=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>

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