The Wall Street Journal has tapped Joe Pinsker to serve on its personal finance team, where he will launch a new beat covering the pursuit of happiness, digging into the changing meaning of the good life, the obstacles and avenues to wealth and prosperity in America.

Pinsker was a staff writer at The Atlantic, which he joined in 2013 as an editorial fellow. He served as an associate editor, a role in which he wrote and edited articles about business and economics.

He interned at Rolling Stone.

Pinsker has a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.

You can congratulate Pinsker via Twitter.