ProPublica hires WSJ’s Grant
ProPublica has hired Conor Grant as an audience writer. He will contribute to ProPublica’s newsletter strategy. Grant joins from The Wall Street Journal, where he spent three years as a newsletter writer, contributing to the flagship 10-Point newsletter and serving as lead author for the Journal’s Health, Careers & Leadership and Future of Everything newsletters. Prior to his time at the […]
WSJ deputy investigations editor Cook departs
John Cook, the deputy investigations editor at The Wall Street Journal, has let after two years, reports Lachlan Cartwright of Breaker. Cook joined The Journal in September 2024. He had been at Business Insider since 2019, overseeing investigations, politics, features and defense coverage. Cook has been a reporter and an editor for more than 25 years, serving […]
WSJ’s AI tool Doppler is creating stories
The Wall Street Journal published in late September its first story using Doppler News AI, a custom tool built to help expand the publication’s midterms coverage, reports Andrew Deck of Nieman Lab. Deck reports, “So far, Doppler has ingested more than 25 million TikTok videos, roughly 500,000 podcast episodes, and thousands of Instagram videos and cable news […]
WSJ seeks a retail bureau chief
The Wall Street Journal seeks a bureau chief to lead our coverage of the retail sector. You will be responsible for handling breaking news, shaping our beat coverage, driving investigations and delivering distinctive enterprise stories. To succeed in this role, you will need to exercise sharp news judgment, juggle assignments and inspire your colleagues. You […]
WSJ plans big push into streaming TV
The Wall Street Journal has been ramping up its push into video and had plans for an ambitious slate of streaming TV shows, reports Lucia Moses and Nathan McAlone of Business Insider. Moses and McAlone report, “Internal documents viewed by Business Insider described an initial six-series offering that would include a flagship live morning program and an interview show hosted […]
How the WSJ standard and ethics team works
The Wall Street Journal has posted a short video explaining how its standards and ethics editing team works. “I get a lot of complicated, investigative work across my desk,” said Elena Cherney, head of standards and ethics, in the video. “As standards editors, we need to know how credible the information is.” Standards and ethics […]
WSJ seeks a bureau chief for Mansion section
The Wall Street Journal’s Features team is seeking a dynamic, experienced bureau chief to run Mansion, our luxury real estate section. Through its digital coverage and weekly print section, this section serves a broad and sophisticated audience: wealthy homeowners and real-estate professionals tracking the market and its biggest trends; aspirational readers who turn to it […]
Dow Jones Newswires hires Weger as a reporter
Dow Jones Newswires has hired Natalie Weger to cover breaking news. Weger has been covering corporate breaking news for Bloomberg News as an intern. She previously was an intern at The Wall Street Journal and was a data and graphics reporter at Capital News Service. Weger is a graduate of the University of Maryland.
News Corp. CEO Thomson sees slight decrease in compensation
Robert Thomson, the chief executive officer of the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Investor’s Business Daily, saw a 4.3 percent decline in compensation during its 2026 fiscal year. The head of News Corp. had $19.7 million in total compensation for the fiscal year, down from $20.6 million in the previous fiscal […]
WSJ, STAT News, The Economist among the Loeb winners
The Wall Street Journal, STAT News and The Economist were among the winners of the Gerald Loeb Awards on Thursday evening. AUDIO The Economist’s Scam Inc. – The EconomistSue-Lin Wong, Sam Colbert, Alizée Jean-Baptiste, Claire Read, Rosie Blau, Weidong Lin and John Shields BEAT REPORTING STAT’s Reporting on FDA Chaos – STATLizzy Lawrence BREAKING NEWS […]
