WSJ markets desk names new night editor
Bob Rose, the markets desk editor at The Wall Street Journal, made the following staff announcement on Friday afternoon: We’re pleased to announce that Bart Fraust will join The Wall Street Journal’s markets news desk Jan. 15 as night editor. After a couple weeks of day duties to brush up on Methode and other minor […]
DJ/WSJ makes beat changes to Paris bureau
Gráinne McCarthy, the Paris bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, made the following staff announcement on Friday: I am delighted to announce a couple of changes in the DJ-WSJ Paris bureau. Noémie Bisserbe officially takes over the French banking beat, an area she has been covering on an interim basis […]
ACBJ’s Grind to join Wall Street Journal
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Francesco Guerrera, the editor of the Money & Investing section of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday: We’re pleased to announce that Kirsten Grind will be joining the Journal to cover asset-management firms and personal finance for the Money & Investing section. We plan to […]
WSJ energy reporter leaving for FT
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Guy Chazan, an energy reporter for The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper to cover the same beat for The Financial Times. In an e-mail to the Journal staff on Thursday, Chazan wrote, ” After 12 eventful years, I’m leaving the Journal. It’s sad to say goodbye: working with you […]
WSJ, Bloomberg reporters win National Press Foundation awards
Reporters from The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News were named winners of National Press Foundation awards on Wednesday. Gary Fields and John R. Emshwiller of the Wall Street Journal will receive the Feddie, given for work showing the impact of Washington rules and regulations outside the Beltway. In a series called, “Federal Offenses,” they […]
Next “Money Honey” works at a real newspaper
Hamilton Nolan of Gawker writes Monday about Kelly Evans, who works at The Wall Street Journal writing a financial column but also hosts the video show “News Hub” on its website every morning. Nolan writes, “The next Money Honey—the next Fed Fox, Cash Crush, Leverage Lady, Bonds Girl, Crisis Isis, Jane Dough—will not be some […]
WSJ hires new medical devices reporter
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Stefanie Ilgenfritz, an editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement on Monday afternoon: We have a new reporter in the Health & Science group, Christopher Weaver, who will be covering medical devices and part of the pharmaceutical industry. Chris has covered insurers, hospitals and state and […]
WSJ looking for Dallas deputy bureau chief
Leslie Eaton, the Dallas bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Tuesday: The Wall Street Journal is looking for an experienced, versatile journalist to join the Dallas Bureau as deputy chief. The bureau is among the busiest in the Dow Jones empire, covering big-box retailing, energy […]
Ovide leaving Deal Journal for SF bureau
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Shira Ovide, the lead writer for Deal Journal, The Wall Street Journal’s online hub for news about corporate mergers and acquisitions, Wall Street and other financial issues, is leaving that post for a job on the West Coast. Ovide will soon move to the paper’s San Francisco bureau, where she will […]
Ex-WSJer Eavis to join NYT
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Peter Eavis, who was with The Wall Street Journal from January 2008 until September 2010, is joining the business desk of The New York Times. An email announcement from Times business editor Larry Ingrassia and Dealbook.com editor at large Andrew Ross Sorkin states: We are delighted to announce that Peter Eavis […]
