Mansion Global hires Catapano as executive editor

Mae Cheng, publisher and editor in chief of Mansion Global at Dow Jones, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

Colleagues,

I am delighted to announce that Pete Catapano has joined Mansion Global as its Executive Editor. In this new position, he will be responsible for running the daily day-to-day coverage in the newsroom, driving traffic to our news stories and strategizing on new editorial products. He will report to me.

Pete comes to Mansion Global bringing decades of digital and print newsroom experience with him, having most recently served as Executive Editor of Salon.com, an iconic news and culture digital magazine with tens of millions of monthly page views.

Throughout his career, Pete has edited and led coverage on topics as far ranging as politics, real estate and development, crime, sports and entertainment.

He has managed and run newsrooms that have covered some of the biggest stories in the United States and in New York, from transit fare hikes and the financial crisis’s impact on Wall Street to this year’s presidential election. In recent years, he’s been heavily focused on digital strategies driving audience expansion.

Pete spent most of the past year at Salon, where he oversaw day-to-day operations of the editorial staff, ran the news and politics teams and coordinated breaking news coverage for the website. Prior to that, he was Editor in Chief of amNewYork, a publication he helped create. He began his career as Managing Editor of The Brooklyn Skyline, a weekly newspaper.

Pete grew up in Queens and now lives in Brooklyn. In his spare time, he is a guitarist and singer in bands and as a solo artist. Might we suggest that he be invited as a warm- up act for the Fox & Friends Summer Concert Series?

Please join me in welcoming Pete to our Mansion Global team.

Mae