Tom Lauricella, the stocks editor of The Wall Street Journal, has left the paper to become editor of Morningstar Direct.
At the Journal, Lauricella had been organizing stocks coverage, developing and mentoring reporters in his team, and he continued to report big stories affecting investors. He had worked at the paper for 14 years.
He was part of a team that won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2011 for covering the flash crash. He also covered the asset management industry and wrote a column for the now-defunct Wall Street Journal Sunday. Lauricella was also a bond market reporter for Dow Jones Newswires.
Morningstar Direct is a web-based software application that provides research about a variety of investments. The service provides current and historical performance data, portfolio holdings data, benchmark market indices data, as well as proprietary Morningstar statistics.
Morningstar Direct’s data libraries are accompanied by proprietary articles and commentary for a qualitative view. The platform includes also includes an extensive regulatory filings database.
