Barron’s newspaper overhauls staff with promotions and hires

Fleming Meeks, the editor of the Barron’s Daily Stock Alert newsletter, has been named executive editor of the weekly financial newspaper.

He will report to editor Edwin A. Finn, who announced a number of other promotions at the Dow Jones publication.

Moving up to deputy managing editor is Phil Roosevelt, who has served as an assistant managing editor since joining Barron’s eight years ago.

Moving up to write the CEO Spotlight is Lawrence C. Strauss, who for three years has penned Barron’s weekly investment interview, one of the most-read features in the magazine and on Barrons.com.

Succeeding Strauss on Barron’s weekly interview, is Leslie P. Norton, who has been with the financial newspaper for 17 years, the last 10 of them as its Asia editor.

The new Asia editor will be Kopin Tan, who for the past five years has done an outstanding job writing the influential Trader column. Before that, Kopin served as the Barron’s options columnist for about three years.

Taking over the Trader column is Vito J. Racanelli, who has been Europe editor since 2000. In the past year or so, Vito has written smart cover stories on buying European blue chips amid the Continent’s turmoil.

Succeeding Racanelli as Europe editor will be Jonathan Buck, a news editor in London for Dow Jones Newswires.

Joining Barron’s as mutual fund editor is Beverly Goodman, who spent the past two years as managing editor of Fidelity’s online home page, and before that worked at SmartMoney for nearly six years, rising to the position of senior editor.

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