Dow Jones Newswires names new senior editor for Asia-Pacific

Dow Jones Newswires managing editor Neal Lipschutz sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

“I’m pleased to announce that Jason Rogers will succeed Gabriella Stern as senior editor, Asia-Pacific, effective June 1.

“Gabby is returning to the U.S. after spending the past nine years as senior editor for EMEA and then APAC. She is taking on the newly created role of senior editor, global news coverage, in which she will lead Newswires’ participation on the pan-Dow Jones Central News Desk, with Andrew Dowell as deputy. She will continue to report to me.

“Jason is well qualified to lead the region. In his 13 years with Newswires, he has directed news coverage for two of our three regions, supervised regional coverage of multiple asset classes, and served with distinction as a reporter.

“Since April 2007, Jason has served as editor, APAC news coverage. In that role, he has supervised the region’s managing editors for equities, money, commodities, energy and markets, as well as the bureau chiefs of Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. Among his accomplishments, he helped to expand in APAC the regional equities news editing and beat reporting system which he helped to establish in EMEA; revamp regional markets coverage to include pan-equities and money markets coverage; shepherded the launch of new columns; and improved coverage efficiency as we worked to free up reporters to pursue scoops of fact and insight, among other things.

“Jason moved to Singapore from London, where he served as senior news editor, EMEA spot news, from April 2004. In that role, he supervised the region’s asset-class editors, and had a big hand in improving the reliability and speed of the region’s spot-news procedures and analysis. Before holding that job, Jason was managing editor for EMEA equities, in which position he established the region’s specialized beat coverage teams, and news editor for EMEA commodities. Jason joined Newswires in 1996 as a commodities reporter in London.

“Jason, age 38, is a citizen of the U.K. He is a graduate of St. Hughs College, Oxford, and holds an M.A. in Japanese studies from Essex University, U.K., and Dokkyo University, Japan.”