Here’s how the WSJ is reconfiguring its per fi coverage

Wall Street Journal financial editor Dennis Berman sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

I’m pleased to announce three welcome developments on our Money & Investing team.
1. We have reconstituted our Wealth group under the leadership of new Wealth editor Karen Damato.
The Wealth team writes stories geared to financial advisers and wealth managers for Newswires and for WSJ.com’s Wealth Adviser page. The team also contributes stories to all parts of the Journal in print and online.
Karen becomes Editor, Wealth after spending the past year as a deputy editor for Personal Finance, and before that as a distinguished editor in varied parts of M&I and Journal reports.
Joining her:
Mike Wursthorn will continue his coverage of large wealth firms, including their strategies, operations and personnel moves.
Daisy Maxey will continue her adviser-focused coverage of mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment products.
Veronica Dagher will continue to write about independent advisers.
Anna Prior has shifted to a new beat within the Wealth realm, covering regulatory and compliance issues.
Anne Tergesen, previously a reporter for the retirement-focused Encore reports, has joined the Wealth group to write about tax and retirement issues.
2. We’re also very excited that the Journal’s premier personal-finance columnists will be taking new perches within the M&I team.
The incomparable and too-modest Jason Zweig – who also happens to have a new book debuting – will continue his Intelligent Investor column on Saturdays.
Our tax expert Laura Saunders will continue her excellent work writing the Journal’s Tax Report (the longest running feature at today’s Wall Street Journal, by the way.)
3. In addition, AnnaMaria Andriotis has joined Brad Reagan’s banking group and will be covering all matters related to consumer finance and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau in D.C.
Leslie Josephs is rejoining our realm to focus on the increasingly important and complicated world of ETFs.

Journal editor Gerard Baker had announced in June a significant scaling back of personal finance coverage, so this announcement is welcome news to fans of the paper’s personal finance coverage.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.