WSJ names three to top editing positions

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following Thursday morning:

Dear All

I am delighted to announce the following appointments:-

Andrew Dowell is moving to Dubai to be the Middle East editor. He will run our bureau, overseeing correspondents in the region and taking on one of the most intense and complex stories of our time.

Drew has been Asia editor in Hong Kong for more than seven years, a stint during which the team won a number of honors including a Loeb, a Livingston, multiple SOPA awards and designation as a Pulitzer finalist.

Drew was previously the deputy finance editor in New York and prior to that was the New York corporate bureau chief. His move to the Middle East is a round trip of sorts — he began his career at Dow Jones as Cairo-based stringer for Newswires in 1997.

In his new role Drew will focus on our coverage of the war in Israel, the increasing tensions in the region and the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia. He starts on April 1 and will report to World Coverage Chief Gordon Fairclough.

Deborah Ball is being appointed Asia editor and will also remain a deputy world coverage chief, reporting to Gordon Fairclough. The reporters and editors in Asia will report to her, and Deborah will oversee our coverage in the region. As the London-based World deputy, Deborah has been at the center of the region’s biggest stories, including the Ukraine war. She has been at the Journal for more than 25 years, covering a wide variety of business, finance and political topics in Milan, London, Rome and Zurich. She is also the author of “House of Versace,” published by Random House in 2010. Deborah will start her new role on April 1 and will be based in Singapore, traveling regularly to Hong Kong.

Brendan Moran who has been leading World coverage in Asia will be moving to a new senior role on the World team in the coming months.

Mike Amon has been promoted to deputy world coverage chief based in New York. This new job will report to Gordon Fairclough. Mike in New York, Gordon in London and Deborah Ball in Singapore will manage our global foreign coverage around the clock. Mike is coming off an intense tour as Middle East bureau chief during which he has steered our outstanding coverage of the Israel-Hamas war. He was previously the law bureau chief in New York and the international energy editor in London. The world coverage staff based in the Americas will report to Mike.