Biz editor Berman named WSJ’s financial editor

Wall Street Journal editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement Monday afternoon:

I’m delighted to announce that Dennis Berman is appointed Financial Editor, with responsibility for all global financial and markets coverage across The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.
Dennis has been Business Editor for the last four years, where he has been responsible for some of the finest reporting on business and technology anywhere. His leadership has been critical in elevating the Journal’s coverage of the big corporate news, from market-moving scoops to deeply reported stories and features. Under Dennis, the Journal has produced some of its most memorable reporting on the rapidly evolving business environment in the US and around the world: from technology and autos to food and pharmaceuticals. He has also been the author of The Game, a lively and insightful take on the future of business, and he will continue to write occasional columns and commentary on financial and business matters. He will play a prominent role in the Journal’s growing conference business, interviewing leading business figures onstage at our various events around the world
For Dennis, the move is a return to familiar and highly fertile territory. He helped oversee the Journal’s coverage during the 2008-2009 financial crisis as deputy bureau chief for Money & Investing, and he served as the Journal’s mergers and acquisitions reporter for four years. In 2007, he launched Deal Journal on wsj.com. He joined the Journal in 2001 as a telecoms reporter and technology columnist after beginning his career at Business Week Online. Dennis shared the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism and the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the global financial crisis, and his work has been honored in the American Society of Newspaper Editors’ America’s Best Newspaper Writing. He holds a degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Kentucky Colonel.
I will be announcing Dennis’s successor as Business Editor shortly. In the meantime, please join me in congratulating him on his new role.
Gerry

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.