Bloomberg hires Tam from Wall Street Journal
Pui-Wing Tam, the former deputy bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau, will join Bloomberg next month as the Team Leader running Silicon Valley tech coverage, succeeding Tom Giles. Pui-Wing has broad knowledge of Silicon Valley companies, consumer electronics, venture capital and business technology. She was the first to report the ouster […]
WSJ seeking reporter to cover small biz and entrepreneurship
Wall Street Journal business editor Dennis Berman sent out the following staff opening on Tuesday afternoon: The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter to cover the engine that drives much of U.S. economy: small businesses and entrepreneurship. The right candidate has a passion and people skills to report on the go-getters and the risk-takers […]
WSJ names editor for institutional news and data
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following staff promotion on Wednesday: I’m delighted to announce that Dave Pettit is appointed Editor, Institutional News and Data. In this newly created role, Dave will oversee the transition of our newswires platform to the digital age — a change that is critical to the […]
When the IRS obtained a biz reporter’s phone records
Gregory Millman of The Wall Street Journal writes about the time that the Internal Revenue Service secretly obtained his phone records. Millman writes, “My first-hand experience of this came when agents of the Secret Service (then part of the Treasury Department, now part of the Department of Homeland Security) appeared at my door in 1991. […]
WSJ’s Asia life and style editor moving to New York
Mike Miller, deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff move on Tuesday: I’m pleased to announce that Andrew LaVallee will join our growing arts and culture team in New York as a senior editor, with oversight of the daily arts pages in our Greater New York section. Reporting jointly […]
Glancey named WSJ editor to oversee training
Jim Pensiero, editor of talent at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement on Monday: I’m pleased to announce that Christine Glancey will be the Journal’s editor, training — a new position in our organization — effective June 1. In this role, Christine will be responsible for the creation and implementation of […]
WSJ names Nixon its chief Euro commentator
Thorold Barker, the Wall Street Journal editor who oversees coverage of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, sent out the following staff promotion on Monday: I am delighted to announce that Simon Nixon is appointed Chief European Commentator of the Wall Street Journal. High quality commentary and analysis is an increasingly […]
Loeb names Minard winner, Lifetime Achievement Award
The recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Lawrence Minard Editor Award were named Thursday by the G. and R. Loeb Foundation Inc. and the UCLA Anderson School of Management. The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient is John Huey, former editor-in-chief at Time Inc. This annual award recognizes an individual whose career exemplifies the […]
Investors scour WSJ articles for Fed clues
Matt Egan of Fox Business Network writes about how investors look at the Wall Street Journal‘s Jon Hilsenrath, who covers the Federal Reserve, for clues as to where the economy is headed. Egan writes, “To be sure, market participants didn’t appear to be suggesting anything sinister on the part of Hilsenrath. Instead, the comments indicate […]
WSJ hires Sterngold to cover hedge funds
Francesco Guerrera, the money & investing editor for The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We are delighted to announce that Jim Sterngold is joining the WSJ as a senior special writer focusing on the hedge-fund industry. Jim is one of the most experienced, skilled and tough financial journalist around and […]
