Wall Street Journal editor changes announced

The Wall Street Journal made official what had already been reported in the New York Times Wednesday and on the BusinessWeek web site Tuesday — there are major changes among the top editors at the paper.

Here they are:

• Bill Grueskin, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal Online, has been named deputy managing editor for news. In his role, Grueskin’s mission is to draw on the news resources at Dow Jones to ensure that each edition of the Journal — Online, Asia, Europe or the U.S. — is getting the right content at the right time, without detracting from its core commitment to the long-form, deeply reported narrative and analytic journalism that defines the Journal. He will oversee a melding of the online and print Journals and a rethinking of how the paper approaches and produces news. The combined news desks will report to him, as will the South Brunswick news teams under assistant managing editor Alan Anspaugh. In addition, Bill will oversee our U.S. bureaus and work with bureau chiefs to ensure we are pioneering in the ways we cover news from the field.
• Alan Murray has been named executive editor, online. Murray will oversee a wide domain, including The Wall Street Journal Online and will continue to manage the Dow Jones relationship with CNBC. Dave Callaway, managing editor of MarketWatch will report to him.
• Mike Miller, for the last seven years a Page One editor and before that editor of the Marketplace page, will become the Journal franchise’s deputy managing editor for enterprise journalism. He will oversee the Marketplace section, under editor Melinda Beck; the Personal Journal section, under editor Hilary Stout; Weekend Journal, under Eben Shapiro; the Pursuits section, under Tom Weber; and the special reports, under Larry Rout.
• Dan Hertzberg, now senior deputy managing editor, will become deputy managing editor for international news. In that role, Dan will oversee the Journal’s overseas editions, as well as the foreign bureaus. Dan will relocate to Europe, allowing him to overlap with most key time zones. He also will work with the business side of the Journal in developing new editorial products internationally. The managing editors in Asia and Europe, Christine Glancey and Jesse Lewis, will report to Dan. He also will work closely with the Journal’s new partners at Financial News in London and will work with the business side of the Journal in developing new editorial products internationally.
• Laurie Hays, the national news editor, will become deputy managing editor for projects. In that role, Hays will oversee investigative teams and will work with editors, bureau chiefs and reporters across the paper to develop significant projects and manage surges of coverage on big, complicated stories. She also will be charged with developing computer-assisted reporting skills.
• Mike Williams, now editor in Europe and the editor responsible for the Journal’s energy coverage, will return to New York this summer as page one editor. A veteran foreign correspondent, Williams has also been a deputy foreign editor.
• Alix Freedman will continue in her current role as deputy managing editor and managing the Journal’s ethics policies.
• Nik Deogun will continue as editor of the Journal’s Money & Investing section.

“We have been as agile as anyone at adapting to change in recent years,” said Marcus W. Brauchli, managing editor of The Journal. “We continue to produce the world’s best journalism, tailored to an audience that seeks to understand the context and meaning of events, not only in business but generally. Yet simply to maintain our standing, we must adapt to constant change.”