She joined The Journal in January 2022. Eckert had been an investigative reporter for the Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minnesota, for the previous year. She was previously an elections reporter for the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

She interned for the Journal and was part of the Pulitzer Prize-finalist team that reported on how COVID-19 swept through nursing homes. She dug into a robust investigation of a New Jersey veterans home that reporting showed had more deaths to coronavirus than any other in the nation. Eckert also interned for NPR and the Associated Press.

Eckert holds a master’s degree from the University of Maryland and a bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College.