Guardian’s Siddiqui hired by WSJ
Sabrina Siddiqui, White House correspondent for The Guardian, is joining the Wall Street Journal to cover the 2020 election. Siddiqui has also written for The Huffington Post and Bloomberg News. She is a CNN political analyst and frequent commentator on cable TV and radio. Siddiqui graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism.
NY Times hires WSJ’s Hong
New York Times metro editor Cliff Levy sent out the following announcement on Friday: I’m thrilled to announce that Nicole Hong, an ace criminal justice and investigative reporter, is joining Metro. Nicole has been a reporter at The Wall Street Journal for seven years, where she was a member of the team that won the […]
WSJ’s Chung named managing editor at SmartNews
Christopher Chung, a publishing editor at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving to become managing editor of SmartNews. Smart News is a news aggregation app. Chung will continue to be based in New York and will start next week. For the past 15 months, Chung was a publishing editor for U.S. and politics news, editing, […]
Omeokwe joins the Wall Street Journal’s DC bureau as economics reporter
Amara Omeokwe is leaving “Morning Edition,” NPR’s flagship morning program, to join The Wall Street Journal’s DC bureau as an economics reporter. Previously, she worked for Time Warner Cable News in North Carolina as a video journalist/reporter covering general assignment and breaking news stories. Omeokwe shot, wrote, narrated and edited all her stories, frequently reported […]
Amon named WSJ law bureau chief
Emily Nelson, U.S. coverage chief at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement: I am thrilled to announce that Mike Amon is named Law Bureau Chief. Mike brings the ability to chart dominating coverage and develop high-impact stories to the U.S. news leadership team. He takes on the leadership of a talented group […]
Sarah Toy headed to the Wall Street Journal to cover energy
Reporter Sarah Toy is headed to the Wall Street Journal to cover energy. Until now, she has worked as a health reporter at MarketWatch. She has also completed a four-month heath and science reporting internship at the Wall Street Journal and a breaking news internship at USA Today.
Langley starts new job reporting on stocks at the Wall Street Journal
Reporter Karen Langley starts a new job this week reporting on stocks for the markets team at the Wall Street Journal. Langley has worked as a state Capital reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where she covered Pennsylvania’s governor and legislature, annual state budgets and public pension debates. As a student at the University of Notre […]
Wall Street Journal announces three additional summer internships
The Wall Street Journal has announced three additional internships for aspiring journalists. The Journal’s internship program is an opportunity for college juniors, seniors and graduate students to be fully immersed in the Pulitzer Prize-winning newsroom, working with some of the best journalists in the world. The 10-week internship program offers hands-on work experience, one-on-one mentorship […]
Muse Abernathy named 2019 Welles Memorial Prize Winner
Penelope (Penny) Muse Abernathy was awarded the 2019 Christopher J. Welles Memorial Prize by The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business at the Columbia Journalism School. Muse Abernathy was recognized for her widely-cited research titled “The Expanding News Desert,” which looks at implications for communities at risk of losing their primary source of credible news […]
Barba named WSJ/Dow Jones spot news editor
Glenn Hall, global chief editor for Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: I am very pleased to announce that Robert Barba is the new Spot News Editor for the Americas at Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. Robert is a versatile editor, quick on the draw with breaking news […]
