Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday:
Dear all,
Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal.
The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of health insurers, pharmaceuticals and the business of health will become a bureau under Kate Linebaugh’s Corporate group.
Our existing personal-health coverage, which already resides within the Corporate team, will be merged with the new Health bureau to create a single, cohesive reporting group. We will recruit a new health bureau chief to lead our coverage.
The Science bureau will be merged into our Education team, which remains part of National Affairs. Erin White is the bureau chief, and she will ensure a cohesive vision for these intertwined areas.
As a result of these changes, we are reducing the size of the teams affected and are saying goodbye to some colleagues. I want to thank them for their many contributions to the Journal, particularly Stefanie Ilgenfritz. Stefanie has spent more than 35 years at the Journal and has helped shape distinctive and consequential journalism, including a series on Medicare fraud that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2015, the Journal’s incredible Covid-19 coverage and another Medicare fraud series that was a Pulitzer finalist this year.
I recognize that change can be unsettling, and I thank you all for your ongoing focus and professionalism.
Emma
