The Free Press has hired former Wall Street Journal finance editor Dennis Berman as its president and publisher, reports Sara Fischer of Axios.
Berman left the Journal six years ago to join asset management company Lazard Ltd. as a managing director in financial advisory.
Berman, a Pulitzer-Prize winning editor and writer, served as the financial editor of The Journal and as a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average Committee since July 2015.
He has been a frequent contributor to business-news network CNBC. Previously, he served as The Journal’s business editor, global deals editor, and as an award-winning M&A reporter and columnist.
He earned his BA at the University of Pennsylvania and was a Hoover Institution Media Fellow at Stanford University.
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