Berman named WSJ’s business editor

Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following staff promotion on Monday:

I’m delighted to announce that Dennis Berman is appointed Business Editor. Dennis will lead the combined corporate reporting and editing teams of the Journal and Newswires as we continue to integrate our two newsrooms and cement our status as the single most powerful business news organization in the world.

There is no more important field of coverage for us than business and corporate news.  Through integration, we are building and strengthening a news organization tasked to serve users from chief executives and financial professionals to the general reader, and we must continue to dominate global coverage of the corporate world with the most scoops, the sharpest analysis and the finest intelligence on the trends that shape the world economy.

Dennis is uniquely equipped to lead this effort.  Before becoming Marketplace Editor, he was deputy chief of Money and Investing, where among other achievements, he developed “The Game” column, which he still writes today.  Prior to that he was the Journal’s mergers and acquisitions reporter in which role he broke a string of exclusives on some of the biggest deals of the time.  He began his career at Business Week and joined the Journal in 2001.  His depth and range of business knowledge and expertise is unrivaled and his leadership at this critical time will significantly enhance our coverage.

Please join me in congratulating Dennis on his appointment.