WSJ deputy ME to leave at end of June

Daniel Hertzberg, a deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the paper on June 30 after 32 years.

Hertzberg oversees the paper’s overseas editions and foreign bureaus.

In a memo to the staff, Hertzberg wrote, “As a reporter and later an editor, I have been lucky enough to participate in the growth of one of the world’s finest journalistic institutions, which values breaking news, lucid analysis and top-notch investigative and narrative journalism, delivered with fairness and balance.

“I have been truly gifted in working with hundreds of exceptional colleagues who have made my stay at the paper so rewarding.”

Read more here, courtesy of Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp.