Olshan named new editor of Marketwatch.com

Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

I’m thrilled to announce that Jeremy Olshan is appointed Editor for MarketWatch, one of Dow Jones’s most successful business and finance news franchises. In his new role, Jeremy will be responsible for further expanding its readership, accelerating the rollout of its mobile and social presence, and extending its global reach.

Jeremy is MarketWatch’s personal finance editor and has been responsible for the site’s fastest-growing coverage area and many of its most popular stories.   He replaces Glenn Hall, who is appointed U.S. Editor for The Wall Street Journal. During his seven-month time at the helm of MarketWatch, Glenn grew the site’s audience, hired new staff, and initiated a successful mobile and social strategy.

In nearly two decades in journalism, Jeremy has covered subjects as varied as politics, hurricanes, New York’s subway system, fortune cookies, mutual funds, and the American retirement crisis. A 10-year veteran of News Corp., he worked for MarketWatch and SmartMoney.com following a seven-year stint at the New York Post, where his scoops included a construction worker’s effort to curse the new Yankee Stadium and the NYPD’s $1 million contract for new typewriters.

Before that he covered city hall for the Press of Atlantic City, and was the editor of the Queens Tribune. He’s a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia’s graduate school of journalism. His work has also appeared in the New Yorker, Salon.com, Newsday, and the Huffington Post, among other places.

He will report to Executive Editor Almar Latour.

Please join me in congratulating Jeremy on his new role.