Kanige named editor of TheStreet

Jeffrey Kanige has been named as editor in chief of both TheStreet.com and The Deal, where he will coordinate and integrate news coverage between TheStreet.com and The Deal.

He replaces Janet Guyon, who is leaving the company. Guyon became editor in chief in April 2014.

Kanige has more than 15 years’ experience at The Deal, joining at its inception in 1999.  As editor in chief of The Deal, he oversees The Daily Deal, a twice-daily digital newspaper covering the day’s top M&A stories; Ahead of the News, an exclusive compilation of advance intelligence; and delivering daily exclusives & breaking news alerts across M&A, private equity, activism and restructuring.

“Jeff is exceptionally well qualified for this position,” said CEO Elisabeth DeMarse in a statement. “His long-standing experience at The Deal, which successfully transitioned from an advertising to a subscription model, is uniquely suited for TheStreet.com.  He is skilled at developing sources and writing stories, which The Deal’s lucrative subscribers want to read.  His expertise will take TheStreet.com to the next level.”

Under his leadership, over the past two years The Deal staff won SABEW Best in Business awards for Digital General Excellence.

A lawyer by training, Kanige has been a professional writer and editor since 1983. He entered the industry as a stringer for the Courier-News, a daily newspaper in central New Jersey.

As a writer for New Jersey Reporter, a public policy journal based in Princeton, he won several awards for his coverage of state politics and government, and served as a political commentator and adviser for television stations in New Jersey and Philadelphia.

He has also covered the courts for Manhattan Lawyer, a unit of American Lawyer Media, worked as a reporter for the New Jersey Law Journal — for which he established “Appellate Watch,” a column about the state Supreme Court — and was associate editor of the Law Journal, directing some of the paper’s signature projects, and assistant managing editor for the New York Law Journal.

The Deal’s managing editor, Anthony Baldo, will assume additional duties in The Deal’s day-to-day news operation.