# Maya Jackson Randall

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'''Maya Jackson Randall''' (1979 – February 26, 2013) was an American news reporter for ''[The Wall Street Journal](/source/The_Wall_Street_Journal)'' (WSJ). She had also written or edited for ''[Money Magazine](/source/Money_Magazine)'', [McGraw-Hill](/source/McGraw-Hill) and [Dow Jones Newswires](/source/Dow_Jones_Newswires). Jackson Randall died of [leukemia](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Lakeside_High_School_(DeKalb_County%2C_Georgia)) in [DeKalb County, Georgia](/source/DeKalb_County%2C_Georgia), and she graduated from [Howard University](/source/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.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), as an associate editor. She worked for [Dow Jones Newswires](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program), the [US Treasury](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_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](/source/Barack_Obama)'s attempts to make [recess appointment](/source/recess_appointment)s, a subject that ended up before the [U.S. Supreme Court](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Atlanta%2C_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](/source/The_Atlanta_Journal-Constitution)|date=March 1, 2013}}</ref>

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