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WSJ editor returns to New York to write column and blog

Dave Kansas, a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter and editor, is moving back from London to New York after a 15-month stint overseas.

Kansas, who had been the paper’s European markets editor, will now focus on writing a personal finance column for the Sunday Journal and an investing column for SmartMoney.com, which is also owned by Dow Jones & Co.

He will also blog at MarketBeat, which is the Journal’s blog that is markets and investments focused.

After reporting for the Journal for five years, Kansas left to become founding editor of TheStreet.com. He returned to the Journal in December 2001 as deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online before being appointed editor of Money & Investing, a post he held till early 2007.

He was then president and editor at large of FiLife, a personal finance website owned by Dow Jones and IAC. He is also the author of “The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It.”

Kansas is also a former president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

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