WaPo biz editor moving to weekends

Jill Dutt, the assistant managing editor of financial at the Washington Post for the past eight years, will become assistant managing editor of the Post’s weekend paper as soon as a replacement is named, according to an internal memo.

Dutt earlier this month spearheaded the reduction of the business section’s stock and mutual fund listings.

The memo stated, “As AME/Financial, Jill transformed The Post’s coverage of business, finance and economics. She led the charge to explore the rise of technology firms in the Washington economy. She made her staff the hub of consumer journalism in The Post, from real estate to video games.

“Along with Sandy Sugawara, she reinvented the daily Business section as a home of visually arresting and creative journalism. Jill’s Business section was about more than money. Building a talented and diverse staff, she seeded A1 and her own section with innovative pieces about immigration, air security and the cultural impact of technology, as well as first-rate coverage of corporate crime and globalization.

“Her broad expertise makes her an ideal editor to supervise our largest and most important newspaper of the week. Jill will continue her role as coordinator of the changes in the Home, Food and Health sections. As weekend editor, she will also manage our schedule of major enterprise pieces. We will move immediately to select Jill’s successor in Financial.”

Read more here. Dutt joined The Post in 1995 after seven years at New York Newsday. From October 1995 until September 1996, she served as economics editor before moving to New York as the paper’s Wall Street correspondent. In 1997, Dutt became Business editor. She was named assistant managing editor in July 1998.