WSJ adds two to its markets desk

Tim Annett, acting chief of the markets desk at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcements on Monday:

We’re delighted to announce two new additions to the Markets desk team:

Bradley Davis joins the desk starting today as Digital Editor. In this new role, Bradley will be responsible for a range of real-time duties, from holding the Markets pages to coordinating presentation and packaging of key markets events across the real-time realm to promoting Money & Investing and markets coverage on social media.

Bradley is well-placed to take on this challenge. He was mostly recently a news editor at FX Trader, where he helped build an indispensable real-time stream of commentary and analysis. The @djfxtrader Twitter account he managed along with editors in London has grown from zero to more than 30,000 followers in about a year; Business Insider named it one of the Top 101 Twitter feeds in finance. He also contributes a column to Barron’s. Before his role at FX Trader, Brad reported for two years for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal on the ups and downs of currency and Treasury markets, and traveled the US and Canada covering Federal Reserve officials. Brad has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was managing editor of the Daily Nebraskan.

Lora Western will soon move over from the hub to become our deputy editor for real time. Lora will work closely with Bradley to elevate our real-time game, with broad responsibility for coordinating real-time news coverage.

Lora joined the Journal in 1992 as a news editor at The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong. Through the 90s, she followed Asia’s boom and bust (and the Hong Kong handover) as a page one editor then deputy managing editor of the Asian Journal.

In New York since 2000, Lora has served as foreign news editor, running the foreign desk; international-editions editor, shepherding a reorganization of the Asian and European editions’ news desk operations to consolidate more work in New York; deputy national editor (back when the news desk was about a fifth of its current size); and post-reorganization, as an editor on the national desk focusing particularly on special reports and other projects. Most recently, she has worked on the online news hub as part of the team holding the WSJ.com home page and other pages and prioritizing news for readers in real time.

Lora is a graduate of Northwestern University in journalism.

Please join us in congratulating Bradley and Lora on their new roles, and in wishing them every success.