Sarah Ellison is an American writer and journalist and the author of War at the Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle To Control an American Business Empire (ISBN 978-0547152431). She previously spent ten years as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal in Paris, London, and New York. She was famously banned from WSJ press conferences for not working on a "specific assignment", though Gawker.com speculated that her exile was motivated by the content of War at the Wall Street Journal.