Top biz journalist Zuckerman talks persistence and success
Gregory Zuckerman, reporter and columnist at The Wall Street Journal, is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb award, the highest honor in business journalism. “I can write about Wall Street all day? How cool!” added Zuckerman. On Feb. 28, he visited Brandeis International Business School to discuss his latest book, “The Man Who Solved […]
WSJ reporter Purnell switches to new beat
Newley Purnell, a tech and business reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has begun a new beat in Hong Kong. According to his tweet, Purnell will be covering tech across Asia, with an emphasis on U.S. “titans’ battles” in global markets. Prior to joining the Journal, Purnell was with Bloomberg BNA working as a special […]
WSJ podcast host Gittleson set to join The Economist
Kim Gittleson, on-air podcast host at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the Journal to join the senior audio team at The Economist. Previously, Gittleson was with BBC News where she first served as a New York business correspondent and then as a senior journalist. Before joining BBC, she was teaching at the Columbia University, […]
WSJ strikes journalism/technology partnership with college
Wall Street Journal editor Matt Murray sent out the following announcement to the staff: Dear All, Outreach training at the Journal is expanding this fall with an exciting, innovative partnership we’ve designed with CUNY’s Lehman College in the Bronx. In collaboration with the college’s Computer Science department, the WSJ & Lehman Journo-Tech Program will provide training opportunities that: Develop and equip […]
Blint-Welsh joining WSJ on the young audiences team
Tyler Blint-Welsh, a national correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, will be joining the WSJ young audiences team starting next week. The new project is aimed at building a digital magazine for telling stories of audiences that have been ignored. Before coming to WSJ, Blint-Welsh was a reporting fellow at The Washington Post. He also […]
NY Times Opinion hires WSJ’s Serkez
Stuart Thompson, head of the Opinion visual journalism department at the New York Times, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: We’re pleased to announce Yaryna Serkez is joining the Opinion Graphics team as a graphics editor. Yaryna (pronounced ya-REE-nah) is a full-stack data journalist. She spent the last three years creating interactive stories for […]
Two WSJ reporters have left China
Two Wall Street Journal reporters left China on Monday after being expelled over a controversial headline in an op-ed that angered Beijing, reports Agence France-Presse. AFP reports, “An AFP reporter saw Chin and Wen, wearing face masks, check in for their flight at Beijing’s main international airport and then pass through security. “Deng, the third […]
WSJ seeks a White House reporter
The Wall Street Journal is looking for an experienced and aggressive reporter to join our team covering the White House. The job involves daily and pool duty as part of a rotation and we expect you to juggle breaking news with incisive enterprise reporting. You will also have a role in coverage of the 2020 […]
WSJ is launching The Experience Report
The Wall Street Journal has launched The Experience Report, a new digital offering that delivers news and analysis on the ways that companies use data, technology and design. The Experience Report will provide insights about experience through news, interviews, explanatory journalism and videos. There will also be a weekly newsletter, emailed every Wednesday, highlighting the […]
U.S. weighs response to China ouster of WSJ reporters
The U.S. is weighing whether to expel Chinese journalists after China kicked out three Wall Street Journal reporters, reports Nick Wadhams, Jennifer Jacobs and Saleha Mohsin of Bloomberg News. Wadhams, Jacobs and Mohsin report, “The administration’s options were to be discussed in a meeting of senior administration leaders at the White House later Monday led […]
