Biz journalist Narisetti gets one of two ME slots at Washington Post

Raju Narisetti, a longtime business journalist at The Wall Street Journal who has been running a business newspaper in India for the past couple of years, has been named one of two new managing editors at the Washington Post.

The other new managing editor, Liz Spayd, has also spent time in business journalism, working as an assistant business editor at the Post when she joined the paper in 1988.

Both will report to executive editor Marcus Brauchli, who had been managing editor of the Journal.

Howard Kurtz of the Post writes, “Narisetti, 42, launched a national business newspaper in India in 2007. The Indian-American worked with Brauchli in several roles at the Journal, the newspaper where Brauchli was the top editor until owner Rupert Murdoch helped pressure him into leaving last spring.”

Later, Kurtz writes, “Narisetti, he said, ‘is quite a visionary in journalistic terms. He understands where the media is going. The combination of these two should prove very strong for The Post in the near term. In the longer term, both of these people are just outstanding journalists.'”

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