Forbes hires WSJ reporter Minaya

Ezequiel Minaya, a reporter for the CFO Journal at The Wall Street Journal, has been hired as a staff writer at Forbes to cover corporate finance.

He has been at the Journal and Dow Jones since December 2010.

A New York City native, Minaya worked at the Los Angeles Times; McClatchy newspapers in Fresno and Modesto; and The Press-Enterprise near Los Angeles. He also reported for the Houston Chronicle.

He spent 13 months as an embedded war correspondent in Iraq writing for Stars and Stripes.

Minaya spent nearly five years covering Venezuela for the Wall Street Journal before transferring to the Real-Time news desk. He received his bachelors degree from Guilford College in North Carolina and a masters in journalism with an emphasis in Latin American studies from the University of California at Berkeley.