WSJ’s Horwitz and team win NYFWA Impact Award

Jeff Horwitz and a team of Wall Street Journal journalists as the winners of the 2022 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism from the New York Financial Writers’ Association. Horwitz and a team of journalists from the Journal won for their “Facebook Files” series, which details Facebook’s knowledge of the harmful impact of Instagram on […]

WSJ’s Siconolfi to receive Bell Award

The New York Financial Writers’ Association has selected Michael Siconolfi of The Wall Street Journal as the recipient of the 47th Elliott Bell Award. The award honors journalists who have made a significant contribution to the field of financial journalism and is named after NYFWA’s inaugural president, Elliott V. Bell, a former Business Week editor. […]

Moscow court declines to hear appeal from WSJ’s Gershkovich

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain behind bars after a Moscow court refused to hear an appeal against his pre-trial detention on Tuesday, reports Anna Chernova of CNN. Chernova reports, “The Moscow City Court said in a statement it was sending the motion back to a lower court – effectively quashing it for the time […]

WSJ graphics reporter Hand has died

Wall Street Journal managing editor Liz Harris sent out the following: I am very sorry to have to tell you that our colleague and friend Kevin Hand passed away yesterday. Kevin joined the Journal in 2019 as a Graphics Reporter creating graphics for our digital and print platforms. He will be remembered for his incredible […]

Longtime WSJ and Dow Jones journalist Austin departs company

Scott Austin, a longtime reporter and editor at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal who joined the company’s business side in 2019, has left the company. “Now I’m looking for ways to leverage my editorial skills with the business-development experience I gained on the corporate side of Dow Jones,” he wrote on Twitter on […]

Comments made at the UN about jailed WSJ reporter Gershkovich

United Nations ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the following comments on Wednesday about jailed Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich: Good morning, everyone. I am pleased to be joined today by the family of Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist who has been wrongfully detained in Russia for more than 160 days. Ella, Mikhail, Danielle – thank you […]

New Zealand’s BusinessDesk strikes deal for WSJ content

New Zealand-based business news website BusinessDesk has struck a deal with Dow Jones & Co. that gives its subscribers access to Wall Street Journal content. BusinessDesk news content will also now appear in Factiva, Dow Jones’s research tool and global news and content collection service. “This is a huge moment for BusinessDesk,” says Pattrick Smellie, […]

WSJ reporter Katz wins Sidney Award for tarmac worker coverage

Ben Katz of the Wall Street Journal won the September Sidney Award for “More Workers Are Getting Hurt on the Tarmac,” which exposes how ground workers are being injured as the airline industry roars back to life. A 34-year-old ramp worker and mother of three was sucked into a jet engine; she was instantly killed. OSHA fined her […]

WSJ’s Somerville takes on the tech and national security beat

After returning from maternity leave, Heather Somerville has taken on the role of technology and national security beat at The Wall Street Journal. She joined the Journal in June 2019 as a technology reporter. Previously, Somerville worked as a technology reporter at Thomson Reuters. She also worked as a business and tech reporter at San […]

WSJ hires Nair as international editor of ‘The Trust’

The Wall Street Journal has tapped Praseeda Nair to serve as an international editor of “The Trust,” the Journal’s the in-house creative consultancy. Recently, Nair freelanced for CNN and the Financial Times. Previously, she wrote and edited for Bloomberg Media Studios, and served as managing editor of Vogue Business on a contractual basis. She also […]