WSJ taps Baer as deputy markets editor

Justin Baer has been named deputy markets editor at The Wall Street Journal.

He has been a senior special writer about Wall Street and investing for the finance bureau in New York.

Baer has covered many of the world’s largest banks, brokers and investment firms. He has written extensively on subjects ranging from post-crisis bank regulation and government investigations to acquisitions, the digitization of financial services and the rise of passive investing.

Baer joined the Journal in 2011 as investing editor. In that role, he managed a team of reporters and spearheaded coverage of hedge funds, pensions and insurance companies. He returned to a reporting post in 2013 to cover Goldman Sachs Group and Morgan Stanley. More recently, his beat focused on investment managers, including Fidelity Investments and Pimco. In 2020, he joined the Washington bureau on temporary assignment to report on the U.S. economy’s struggles in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

He previously wrote about Wall Street, airlines and Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway for the Financial Times. Prior to that, he was a reporter at Bloomberg News, covering banking and telecommunications. His career began at the Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne, Indiana.