Marfil among the WSJ layoffs in DC

Jude Marfil, newsroom operations manager for The Wall Street Journal in its Washington office, was among the layoffs last week.

Marfil started in the Washington bureau in August 2011, running the day-to-day operations. She was instrumental in her assistance in the resettlement of more than 100 Afghan colleagues and families into Canada and the U.S.; the standing up of a Dow Jones news bureau at the Democratic and Republican conventions since 2012; the reconstruction of the DC office space in 2013; and the bureau’s business continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

She was a journalist at the Manila Standard in the Philippines and reported in the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands.

She attended law school in Manila and earned a master’s degree in journalism at the Harvard School of Continuing Education.