Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ.com head leaving for new job

Kevin Delaney, managing editor of The Journal Online — or WSJ.com, as it is better known — is taking a job at the Atlantic Media Company, reports Kara Swisher of All Things D.

Swisher reports, “The move is a blow to the Journal’s online efforts, as Delaney, who got the top job in late 2009, is a well-regarded journalist and editor.

“(He is certainly an AllThingsD.com fave of those at the Dow Jones mother ship, but he still did not call me back to comment! Thanks a lot, Kevin!)

“It has not yet been determined who will succeed him at WSJ.com, sources said. Delaney is not leaving immediately.

“Delaney joined the media giant in 1992, was a prominent tech reporter in Silicon Valley and was also deputy managing editor at WSJ.com.”

Read more here. And here is the memo from Journal managing editor Robert Thomson when Delaney was named WSJ.com ME.

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.