WSJ makes changes to Money & Investing team

Dennis Berman, the financial editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff changes on Tuesday:

The seasons change and so do we. We are excited to announce these personnel additions, beat changes, and other cool developments for the Journal’s Money and Investing team. Please join me in…

LAUNCHING…

Our Daily Shot newsletter, which will soon appear online and begin as a daily email on Nov. 1. What’s the Daily Shot? A sharp, mobile-first chart-driven email newsletter. With the Daily Shot, you will be able to “speed-read the markets.”

The Daily Shot represents a rare acquisition, and we are excited about what this newsletter – and its 35,000 high-quality subscribers – can do for M&I. As part of our Daily Shot plans, you will be seeing more of its mastermind, Lev Bodorovsky, Ph.D. on the 5^th floor. Lev has spent a career on Wall Street, and will now be helping us better understand the markets we live and breathe each day.

WELCOMING…

Lisa Beilfuss 

Lisa joins the Wealth Management group from the Real Time desk in New York. She joined the Journal in 2015 after working as a market analyst in Chicago and attending the University of Illinois, where she studied economics and English.

Chris Dieterich

Chris will be rejoining Money & Investing as a “markets maniac” reporter. He was previously an exchange-traded funds columnist for Barron’s and multi-threat blogger for Barron’s online, responsible for kicking the tires on new and complex investment products aimed at ordinary investors. He first joined the newsroom as a Dow Jones News Fund intern in 2010. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Chris wrote about aspects of financial reform legislation in the D.C. bureau of American Banker.

Brian Hershberg

Brian is our new Wealth Management editor. Brian joins us after a stint on the U.S. News desk as economics editor. Brian has been with the Journal since 2002 in a variety of capacities, including a stint with Money & Investing as the bureau’s first real-time deputy. He has overseen two special sections over the past year, one on the pope’s U.S. visit and one on the global growth outlook for the World Economic Forum in Davos. He started his reporting and editing career at the Courier-Post in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Inyoung Hwang

Inyoung is joining as an editor and writer on our markets team to improve our coverage of the futures and options markets. Inyoung spent seven years at Bloomberg News where she was the New York stocks editor. She was also previously a markets reporter in London and New York and has written about IPOs and currencies. She is a graduate of Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism and Dartmouth College,

Asjylyn Loder 

Asjylyn is joining our markets team to dig deep into the burgeoning industry of ETFs. She spent spent seven years at Bloomberg News, where she wrote about the emergence of commodity ETFs, futures market regulation, the inner workings of Koch Industries and the rise and fall of the U.S. shale industry. Prior to Bloomberg, she worked at the St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times) and the New Jersey Herald News.

Alexander Osipovich

Alex is joining as a reporter to cover the futures market and the major exchanges. He currently works as the commodities editor of Risk.net, a website specializing in risk management, derivatives and complex financial products.  Alexander was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University. Between 2003 and 2010, he worked as a journalist in Russia, most recently at the Moscow bureau of Agence France-Presse.

Akane Otani

Akane is a reporter on the stocks team. Before joining the Journal, she was a reporter at Bloomberg Businessweek, where she wrote about higher education. She’s also interned at CNBC and Reuters. Akane is a 2014 graduate of Cornell University, where she studied literature, and a graduate student at New York University, where she’s finishing a master’s degree in business and economic reporting.

Alison Sider

Alison is joining M&I covering oil and natural gas markets, having spent four years covering the energy industry from Houston. Aly joined Dow Jones in 2012 and has helped chronicle the shale boom—and bust, and its impact on pipelines, refiners and oilfield services companies. Before that she covered business and state politics at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock. Aly has a degree in economics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

WELCOMING OUR NEW VISUALS TEAM…

Elliot Bentley

Elliot joins as an interactive graphics developer. He started at the Journal in February 2014 as one of the London graphics team’s first developers, where he worked on projects ranging from terror attacks in Paris to the European bond market to the Brexit referendum. Elliot previously worked as a tech reporter for a small B2B publication and holds an undergraduate degree in Biology from Newcastle University.

Peter Santilli

You’ve probably already worked with Pete, but I wanted to make his announcement official. He is our new Visual Editor for Markets. Peter comes to The Journal from The Associated Press, where he focused on data visualization for the business desk. His work also included long-format multimedia features about Europe’s migrant crisis and The AP’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series on slavery in the Southeast Asian seafood industry. A lifelong Brooklyn resident, Peter recently moved across the border into Queens with his wife and 1-year old son.

Hanna Sender

Hanna Sender is a Graphics Editor, embedded with the Money & Investing section. Before joining the Journal in June, she worked as the Data Visuals Senior Editor for International Business Times and Newsweek. She was previously the Infographics Designer at Vocativ where she worked on data-driven stories and interactives. She graduated from Parsons The New School for Design with a BFA in Communication Design and received her BA in Culture and Media Studies from Eugene Lang College. She is originally from Southern California.

CONGRATULATING OUR COLLEAGUES ON THEIR NEW GIGS…

John Carney

John is moving from the digital markets team to the banking group, where he will cover the ins-and-outs, ups-and-downs of Wall Street. John joined the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street in 2014 from CNBC. Prior to CNBC, he developed Business Insider’s Wall Street coverage and edited DealBreaker.com.

Nicole Friedman

Nicole is our new reporter covering Berkshire Hathaway, and she will also join Leslie Scism on the increasingly important insurance beat. Nicole has covered energy markets for M&I since late 2013, including near-daily coverage of the dramatic fall in oil prices since 2014. She previously worked as a metro and business reporter for The Oregonian and as a Dow Jones Newswires intern covering commodities. She is from Piedmont, Calif.—known for its bird-calling contest—and lives in Brooklyn.

Heather Gillers

Heather is adding the pensions beat to her existing beat of municipal bonds and municipal finance. Heather came to the Journal from the Chicago Tribune where she covered city and school finance. She has also covered state government for the Indianapolis Star, and local politics and crime for the Aurora (Illinois) Beacon News. Heather has a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree from Medill School of Journalism.  She grew up in New York City.

Erik Holm

Erik takes on the role of real-time markets editor with Stephen Grocer. Erik has been with us for six years, first as an insurance reporter for Newswires, then in a variety of editing roles for the wire, the paper and our website  He worked previously as an editor and reporter at Bloomberg, and covered local news for Newsday on Long Island. He got his start at a trade publication covering nuclear waste disposal. Fun fact: He’s also appeared on This American Life.

Daniel Huang

Daniel is moving to the stocks team. He joined the Wall Street Journal in 2014 as a general assignment banking reporter. He moved over to the visuals team earlier this year where he worked on developing his graphics-building chops. Dan graduated from New York University with a degree in economics.

CONGRATULATING OUR COLLEAGUES ON THEIR NEW FOREIGN GIGS…

Bradley Hope, still reporting on the 1MDB scandal, is relocating to London, where he will be our City of London reporter, chronicling the chaos and opportunity embedded in the Brexit vote. Bradley will be focusing on quantitative trading and technologies reshaping the markets.

Tim Martin, our current pensions ace, will be heading to Asia in a few months to cover technology. Look for him in either Hong Kong or Seoul.

STILL SEARCHING FOR…

A banking editor in London

A Heard on the Street editor in Hong Kong.

Know excellent editors interested in these jobs? Contact me.