Sullivan, ex-WSJ arts and entertainment editor, hired by A&E

Missy Sullivan, who was arts and entertainment editor at The Wall Street Journal before leaving at the end of last year, has a new job.

Sullivan starts next week as a special projects editor, digital editorial, for A+E Networks, creating interactive web- and mobile-based features on a wide variety of topics for the History and A+E channels.

She had run the arts-and-entertainment desk for the Journal’s Greater New York section, assigning, editing and producing between two and five news or feature stories daily for both digital and print; managed staff reporters and several dozen freelancers. Before that, she was the section’s features editor.

Sullivan also spent 18 months on the Personal Journal editing desk, and she served as a senior editor at SmartMoney magazine where, in addition to shepherding consumer and investigative stories, she wrote award-winning features on the retirement beat, shadowing medical reps in the field, crisscrossing Panama to uncover the seamier side of ex-pat life and revealing the hidden threat financially struggling siblings pose to many baby boomers’ retirement.

Sullivan also spent seven years at Forbes, trying to make sense of the web and the collecting markets. Her first publishing job involved launching and running a national chain of consumer magazines dedicated to museum-going, which spun out of a decade-long career in museum education and consulting.