Dow Jones Newswires head: We will never be 100% staffed

Chip Cummins is the chief newswires editor of Dow Jones Newswires, the real-time financial news service of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following on Wednesday:

Folks, I wanted to share a quick update on some of the new hiring and rebuilding we’ve been doing around the world.

We have now filled all our open roles in Asia and New York, and are near that in Barcelona. While we will never be 100% fully staffed, we are probably now as close as we can get.

We are also now advertising for a chief news editor for the Americas — someone who can step into Mary’s big shoes, as she moves to a separate, key leadership and operational role in the newsroom. You should see a job posting go out as we look both internally and externally for the new Americas chief.

Mary has been invaluable to the Newswires for the last few years as head of our Americas team, and to me personally in the last six months. She has literally seen it all — over 20 years at Newswires and the WSJ, in NY and abroad. And I’m happy to say that we get to keep and benefit from that experience as she moves into a new role critical to the NY and global newsrooms. More details to come.

We have made, or are in the process of making, a number of promotions in Asia and Europe. Once we have a new person in place leading our Americas team, our global leadership structure will be fully in place to embrace the big opportunities and challenges of 2024.

The Mary is Mary de Wet, who has been Americas chief editor for Dow Jones Newswires since October 2021 and who has been with The Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones since March 2000.