WSJ names Dean its global tech editor

Wall Street Journal business editor Jason Anders sent out the following announcement on Monday:

I’m excited to announce that Jason Dean is appointed Global Technology Editor for The Wall Street Journal. Jason will head our expert team of reporters and editors in San Francisco and around the world in this vital coverage area for The Journal, where we have distinguished ourselves as leaders.

Our technology coverage has expanded significantly in recent years, and we have set ambitious goals that will take us ever higher. Jason, an unapologetic geek with broad experience driving some of our most important work, is up to the challenge. He joined Dow Jones Newswires in Beijing in 1999 following stints teaching English in the Chinese capital, where he met his wife, Ritsuko. He moved to the Journal as Taiwan correspondent in 2001. After four years covering that island’s big contract manufacturers and full-contact politics, he returned to Beijing in 2005, and, the next year, became deputy bureau chief for China under Rebecca Blumenstein. He played a leading role in the bureau’s coverage of China’s economic rise and was part of the team that won the 2007 Pulitzer for International Reporting for the “Naked Capitalism” series.

In 2011, Jason was named Chicago bureau chief. He has overseen the Journal’s reporting on food, flying and manufacturing, spearheading coverage including the “How We Eat” series while also introducing his twin 7-year-olds to the wonders of Cubs fandom.

He is a graduate of Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies.

Jason will assume his new post later this month. Please join me in congratulating him.