Ann-Marie Alcántara and Katie Deighton, reporters at The Wall Street Journal, will be moving to the WSJ CMO Today team, which provides marketing, advertising and media news and will now also include articles pertaining to user and customer experience.
Alcántara was a reporter for The Experience Report at The Journal. Prior to The Journal, she was a retail reporter at Adweek. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Lily, Inman News, SF Sounds, Hoodline, Fast Company, The Bold Italic, and Bustle.
She also served as an editorial assistant, assistant tech editor and assistant editor for news and culture at POPSUGAR. She was an editorial fellow at BuzzFeed and has interned at Mashable. Alcántara has a B.A. from Vassar College.
Deighton, whose beat of design and user experience will stay the same, joined The Journal from The Drum, where she worked as a video reporter and researcher, senior reporter and then as a senior editor. She has also reported for Event Magazine at Haymarket Media Group. She was also a freelance writer at Retail Week.
She was also a fashion editor at The Tab. Deighton is a University of Bristol graduate.
