New biz editor at Boston Globe

Boston Globe business editor Caleb Solomon has been named deputy managing editor, charged with developing high-impact stories for paper’s front page, the paper said on Monday.

Shirley Leung, an assistant business editor responsible for the Sunday section, will succeed Solomon as business editor. In a memo to the staff, Globe editor Martin Baron said the changes were driven by efforts to “stimulate more distinctive journalism for our front page.”

Reporter Robert Gavin wrote, “‘Caleb has demonstrated a real talent for getting stories onto page one and for populating the Business section with stories of wide appeal,’ Baron said in the memo. Leung, Baron said, ‘has fashioned the Sunday Business section into a lively, consumer-friendly destination for readers while providing strong daily leadership for our retail, travel, and consumer news coverage.’

“Solomon, 48, joined the Globe in 2003, after nearly two decades as an editor and reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Under Solomon, the business section won several national awards as well as produced several finalists for the Gerald Loeb Award, considered the top prize in business journalism. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Columbia College and a masters in journalism from Columbia University.

“Leung, 34, joined the Globe in 2004, after working six years as a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal in its Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston bureaus. She also worked as a staff reporter at the Boston Globe and Baltimore Sun. She holds a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. She is president of the New England chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.”

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