WSJ names new editors in Europe

Hi all,

I’m delighted to announce some additions and changes to our London M&I editing ranks.<

Sara Muñoz is named European Banking Editor. This will be a return to London for Sara, who covered banking here from 2008 to 2012. Those were the crisis glory days, and she wrote about British bailouts, the mess that the Spanish banks built, and the rise and fall of Bob Diamond. Also, her ahed on British donkey rescues is a classic; one memorable character is Snaffi, who got his head stuck in a gate and waited patiently to be freed. Whenever I see an obedient queue at a London bus stop, I think of Snaffi.

Since 2012, Sara has been a Latin America correspondent in Bogota, Colombia, ranging widely around the region. Sara began her Journal career in 2003 in the Washington bureau. As European Banking Editor, Sara will write on European banks, oversee the London-based banking reporters and coordinate the work of banking reporters in European bureaus. Sara will report to me. She starts next month.

Jim Willhite is named News Editor in the London M&I group. Jim, an editor at CFO Journal, now writes and curates CFO’s popular Morning Ledger newsletter from London. Jim joined the Journal in 2006 as a newswriter and editor at WSJ.com in New York. He helped launch WSJ Professional and moved to CFO Journal in 2010 to help launch that site as well. Before getting ahead of the digital revolution, he worked in the book business. In his new role, Jim will edit stories across our banking, investing and markets teams.

Jim will report to me. He also starts next month

Anuj Gangahar, the Investing Editor in London, adds oversight of M&A in Europe to his portfolio. He will also lead our efforts to collaborate more fully with our London-focused colleagues on the WSJ City app and Financial News, bringing in additional coverage of asset management, pensions, insurance, financial crime and other hot zones.

And this is long overdue: The last time one of these emails went out, Alistair MacDonald was listed as the interim markets editor in London. Folks keeping score at home can scratch the “interim.” Alistair oversees our financial- and commodity-markets coverage, as permanently as anything can be in this impermanent world.