WSJ. Magazine names new staff members

Dear all,

After a long and comprehensive search and amid some of the most outstanding memos and finalists I’ve ever seen in a hiring endeavor, I am thrilled to announce three new joiners to our team this spring:

Willow Lindley is our new style director, joining us following more than a decade at Vogue, where she rose steadily to become the fashion market and collaborations director under Virginia Smith. Willow is a seasoned team leader and exceptionally tasteful editor whose warm spirit and thoughtful collaboration with top-notch stylists, photographers, brand partners and executives have endeared her to many across our industry. She has well-honed live-event and platform muscles not only from Vogue, but from time at Refinery29. Willow joins us April 28th to lead our fashion team and help champion WSJ.’s fashion POV to our millions of readers around the globe.

Matteo Mobilio is our new head of creative, overseeing the photo and design teams and tasked with thinking holistically about how we show up visually and creatively across all our platforms.  Matteo’s inventive and striking work as the director of visuals at Highsnobiety helped propel the magazine to its first-ever General Excellence ASME win (and nomination).  He is a protégé of New York’s Jody Quon and GQ’s Roxane Behr, under whose award-winning vision he worked to help produce dynamic and shareable projects. From April 21st, Photo and Design will report to Matteo and work with him collaboratively along with our video & platforms heads to bring your biggest and most exciting visual ideas to life.

Lastly, Sam Schube is a new voice on our reporting team covering the pop-culture side of menswear and men’s style, the style side of sports and entertainment, and various things in the zeitgeist that make him laugh (or wince). Most recently a senior editor at GQ spearheading coverage of the biggest personalities in sports, Sam is a seasoned profiler and a smart thinker about the culture, and prior to writing and editing stints at GQ, was an editor at Bill Simmons’s The Ringer and at Departures Magazine. He’s hit the ground running so fast at WSJ. that he is already on assignment in Milan. Benvenuto to Sam!

Please join me in making these new colleagues feel so warmly welcome, as I know you will.