Marketwatch.com names new ME

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Anne Stanley has been promoted to managing editor in charge of personal finance and special projects at Marketwatch.com.

She has been assistant managing editor/enterprise based in San Francisco.

Stanley becomes the first new MarketWatch.com managing editor in six years and will launch a new era in personal finance aimed at better integrating its coverage with the rest of the Wall Street Journal Digital Network and orchestrating a series of big-picture projects and events.

Stanley has worked every editing job, every production shift, every weekend and holiday, every possible hour of the MarketWatch day for more than 10 years now and has been instrumental in launching and maintaining many of its franchises, such as CEO of the Year and Trading Strategies.

Stanley will report to editor in chief David Callaway. She’s worked as an investigative reporter and covered business and technology for Gannett and Scripps.

Andrea Coombes will remain personal finance editor and will report to Stanley, but will also be taking on a variety of more important reporting and writing assignments.