WSJ markets desk names new night editor

Bob Rose, the markets desk editor at The Wall Street Journal, made the following staff announcement on Friday afternoon:

We’re pleased to announce that Bart Fraust will join The Wall Street Journal’s markets news desk Jan. 15 as night editor. After a couple weeks of day duties to brush up on Methode and other minor matters, Bart will oversee the C section for later editions, Sunday through Thursday. Like other markets desk editors, he’ll also edit for all parts of the section, in addition to Extras for page one.

For the past four years, Bart has been managing editor in charge of the Americas Copy Desk at Dow Jones Newswires. He joined The Wall Street Journal in 1995 as a copy editor and became deputy copy chief at the Journal in 1999 and a news editor for The Wall Street Journal Europe in 2004. Before that, he had been a reporter and editor at the American Banker, Newsday, Bloomberg News and Quick Nikkei News.

Bart graduated from Queens College of the City University of New York, where he says he must have studied something or other.

Peter Miller and Dorene Lomanto-Kulp will run the Newswires copy desk on an interim basis after Bart’s departure.