Semafor has hired former Wall Street Journal features editor Liz Rappaport to be senior business editor, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker.
Rappaport was an editor for The Journal’s weekend business and finance section, Exchange, before leaving last year.
Before that, she was the Journal’s Los Angeles bureau chief. Rappaport had been with he Journal since 2008, when she was a reporter covering markets and banks during the financial crisis.
She shifted to editing the credit-markets reporting team and later was a features editor in the Personal Journal section.
She has been a visiting professor of journalism at SUNY Purchase College in New York and has taught winter study courses on media at Williams College.
