Categories: OLD Media Moves

WaPo shuffles biz desk editors, names white collar crime reporter

Washington Post national economy and business editor Greg Schneider and deputy business editor David Cho sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

We have several organizational changes to announce on the Financial desk.

Michelle Williams, who has been our digital editor, will become an assignment desk editor and will work closely with David Cho to run our technology coverage. Michelle’s news judgment and mastery of the tools of digital journalism will help us find the smartest stories and the broadest audience, as she has already demonstrated in her running of the Get There personal finance vertical.

Renae Merle, who has been an integral part of our editing desk since 2012, is moving back to reporting to cover the world of finance and white collar crime out of New York. She has been the backbone of our desk through many hectic times, but writing about finance in New York has been a goal since getting her MBA at Columbia. We’re happy that the reorganization has made that possible.

Dan Beyers, a great all-around editor who so ably ran Capital Business, and Kelly Johnson, who runs Sunday Business and is a talented editor of enterprise stories, will be responsible for our general business report. Dan and Kelly will work together to beef up our national and local business coverage, and will back each other up on the daily and Sunday pages.

And, of course, Simone Sebastian is joining policy editor Zach Goldfarb on the policy/economy team to round out our very strong slate of editors.

Finally, we’re happy to announce that Matt McFarland has joined our team, and his On Innovations blog will operate in coordination with The Switch and our other tech coverage. Please join us in welcoming Matt.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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