Wall Street Journal makes changes to money and investing team

Wall Street Journal financial editor Dennis Berman sent out the following job changes on the money and investing team on Tuesday:

We’re lucky to have such accomplished, committed journalists join the ranks of the new M&I  — some making internal moves, others coming to us from outside. Here is the latest:

Ken Brown returns to Money & Investing as a ​senior columnist. He spent the last four-and-a-half years running our Asia finance and markets coverage out of Hong Kong, where he oversaw our “China’s Rising Risks” series in 2013, the Hong Kong democracy protests in 2014, the Asia debt series in 2015 and is still deeply involved in our investigation into Malaysia’s ​​government investment fund, 1MDB.  ​​Before ​he moved to Hong Kong in 2011, Ken led Money & Investing ​through much of the financial crisis. Ken has also overseen the Journal’s real estate coverage and reported on tech and asset management.

James Mackintosh has also joined as a senior columnist. James is a 19-year veteran of the Financial Times, where he wrote the well-regarded “Short View” daily column, and covered everything from hedge funds and autos to retail banking and personal finance. The London-based James will be writing many times each week.  He is a graduate of the University of Oxford.

​​Aaron Kuriloff has moved to our stocks team. He previously wrote about muni bonds and public finance, including on the ongoing woes of Puerto Rico. Prior to joining the Journal, he worked as a reporter at Bloomberg in New York and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans. He graduated from Brown University, where he studied American civilization, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Heather Gillers is joining us on our bonds team, focusing on munis. Heather comes to the Journal from the Chicago Tribune, where she covered city and school finance in Chicago as a member of the paper’s investigative team. A story she wrote about the use of auction-rate bonds by the Chicago Public Schools was part of a package that won a Loeb award last year. Before the Tribune, Heather worked at the Indianapolis Star and the Beacon News in Aurora, Ill. She was a history major at the University of Chicago and also has a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

Aaron Back is a Heard on the Street columnist covering U.S. banks and financial institutions.He was previously a columnist for Heard on the Street in Hong Kong, where he wrote about technology, finance and macroeconomics across East Asia, including China, Korea and Japan. Before that, he was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in Beijing, including a stint as deputy China bureau chief for the wires.  He has undergraduate degrees in Economics and East Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Ben Eisen joined us in January to cover markets broadly as a “market maniac.”  A prolific contributor, he’s covered topics from gold options to the dollar, for all channels. Ben came from Bloomberg, where he covered financial products. Before that, he worked at MarketWatch where he wrote about credit markets. Ben attended Cornell University, where he majored in American Studies and wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun.

Mike Bird joins in London as a market maniac. Mike comes from the London office of Business Insider, where he worked as a European markets and economics correspondent from the time of its launch in the summer of 2014. Before then he worked at City A.M, a free business and finance newspaper in London, after studying history at Exeter University at the U.K.

Jon Sindreu is another of our London maniacs, having served  previously at the Journal covering U.K. economics and the Bank of England. Jon has worked as a talk-radio host and on-air producer in Catalonia and as a business reporter in Spanish newspapers La Vanguardia and Expansión. He has degrees in computer science as well as journalism from Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a master’s in financial journalism from City University London.

Sam Goldfarb is covering the debt markets for us, with a focus on corporate debt. Before joining the Journal in February, Sam covered corporate bonds for Debtwire and spent five years in Washington covering Congress for publications Tax Analysts and CQ Roll Call. Like Heather, he also got his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago, where he majored in medieval studies, and has a master’s in journalism from Northwestern.

Chelsey Dulaney is covering currencies. She joined the Journal in 2014 as an intern on the real-estate team, and then spent a year and a half on the real-time news desk, where she covered corporate earnings and other breaking news. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina, where she studied business journalism.

Stephanie Yang will be covering commodities. A 2015 graduate of Northwestern University, where she studied journalism, Stephanie was an intern for Money & Investing last summer. She then joined CNBC as an associate producer with a focus on markets and trading. Stephanie has also written for Business Insider and the Huffington Post.