Lee Hawkins

Lee Hawkins is a Wall Street Journal staff reporter. He has been an on-air contributor at CNBC Television as part of the Journal's content sharing agreement with the network since 2007.

Previously, Hawkins covered General Motors Corp. from the Detroit bureau for the Journal.

Hawkins began the assignment with CNBC in after appearing frequently on CNBC as a guest commentator.

Prior to covering GM and the challenges facing America's Big Three automakers for the Journal, Hawkins worked as a business reporter for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal.

A native of Minneapolis-St. Paul, he is a member of the National Association of Black journalists. Hawkins earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was the editorial page editor of the Badger Herald student newspaper.