WSJ taps Beaudette to oversee business, finance and economy

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Friday:

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce some exciting changes to how we organize our coverage of business, finance and the economy. We will unite these three pillars of The Wall Street Journal in one group under the leadership of Marie Beaudette.

Our readers don’t see business and finance and economics as separate domains, and neither should we. The stories we break and tell are about how people and companies make, lose and spend money. They are about workers and bosses, investors and entrepreneurs, wealth and poverty and power. We must think about all of these things together.

The Corporate bureaus will report to Marie alongside the finance and economics groups, effective immediately, forming a wider Business, Finance & Economics coverage area that will deliver powerful reporting within a more flexible and collaborative structure. Economics, which Marie and Tammy Audi assembled earlier this year, is a model for how we can draw together skill and expertise from across a wide domain to deliver ambitious work.

I am delighted to have Marie at the head of this effort and this coverage. Marie is a superlative editor who delivers the distinctive storytelling our audience demands. And she’s a bold leader with creative approaches to marshaling our work and our talent.

Business, Finance & Economics is of course at the heart of The Wall Street Journal, and Marie will work closely with me, David Crow, Bruce Orwall and the other coverage chiefs. I expect this group to be working with everyone across the newsroom.

Marie is a 20-year veteran of Dow Jones and cut her teeth covering bankruptcy in Washington. She has worked in the managing editor’s office and led reporting and editing teams of all sizes. She’s steeped in deals, banks, markets, finance and more, and most recently has been our Finance & Economics coverage chief.