Glickman now covering M&A and activism at WSJ

Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Glickman is now covering mergers and acquisitions as well as investor activists. He has been a reporter on the real-time news desk for the past year. Glickman was a reporting intern and part of the summer 2023 newsroom intern class at The Journal. Glickman is a recent graduate of Brown University, where […]

WSJ taps Bobrowsky to cover Meta

Wall Street Journal reporter Meghan Bobrowsky has been tapped to cover Meta, the parent company of Facebook. She has been a tech reporter in California for The Journal since 2021. Bobrowsky interned at CalMatters, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Index on Censorship, The Sacramento Bee, Claremont Courier and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She has also worked as a video editor, life […]

WSJ seeks a breaking news editor

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a high-energy breaking-news editor for a role at the heart of our newsroom, running a team of fast-paced high-energy reporters. You will work collaboratively with our bureaus and newswires to ensure we are first or fast on the stories that matter most to our readers. You will be part […]

WSJ seeks a senior data journalist

The Wall Street Journal’s Data Team is seeking a creative data journalist with a strong background in causal inference, economics, political science or quantitative social sciences, with a particular emphasis on explaining real-world phenomena. The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of how to leverage data to uncover causal relationships, a natural and wide-ranging […]

WSJ’s Trofimov wins Peterson Prize

Wall Street Journal reporter Yaroslav Trofimov has won the 2024 Peterson Literary Prize for his book “Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine’s War of Independence.” The winner is awarded $25,000 and the book’s publisher receives $5,000. The Peterson Literary Prize for nonfiction is a biennial international prize that recognizes the best books, […]

Business Insider hires Russolillo as chief news editor

Business Insider editor in chief Jamie Heller sent out the following on Wednesday: I’m excited to announce that Steve Russolillo will be joining Business Insider in a new role, as Chief News Editor. Steve is an accomplished, enterprising, and versatile journalist who has worked for most of the last 17 years at The Wall Street Journal. As […]

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 […]

Election editor Johnson laid off at WSJ

Kimberly Johnson, the election coverage editor at The Wall Street Journal, was laid off from the paper. Johnson was also deputy chief news editor. In 2021, she led the Journal’s Tulsa Race Massacre project which won a New York Press Club award and was a Pulitzer finalist. With more than 25 years of experience, Johnson […]

WSJ hires Dugan to cover the culture of Wall Street

The Wall Street Journal has hired Kevin T. Dugan to cover the culture of Wall Street. Dugan has been at New York Magazine since 2020 covering markets and money with an emphasis on Wall Street and cryptocurrency. Dugan has contributed to Intelligencer and Curbed on finance, policy, and other topics and has written for the New York Times, Rolling Stone, […]

WSJ taps Chin as senior global correspondent

Josh Chin has been named senior global correspondent at The Wall Street Journal. “My remit is to pursue deeply reported stories where geopolitics collide with tech, money and power,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “In practice, that will still mean a lot of reporting on China, though I’ll have the freedom to stretch my legs, and expend […]