Elena Cherney, the head of standards and ethics at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the news organization.
She has been in that role since March 2024.
Cherney advised the newsroom on the most complex and ambitious work and played a role championing the Journal’s support of press freedom and free speech.
“I could not be more proud to have supported some of the most ambitious journalism our newsroom has produced in recent years and to have worked with the Journal’s unparalleled reporting and editing teams,” she wrote on LinkedIn.
She first joined The Journal in Toronto in 2000 as a reporter, and after a detour to the Globe and Mail, where she served as business editor, she rejoined the Journal in 2014 as Canada bureau chief.
She has held a number of positions, first joining the masthead as planning editor and she oversaw coverage as chief news editor.
