WSJ names deputy financial editor

Wall Street Journal financial editor Dennis Berman sent out the following announcement:

I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Dowell as Deputy Financial Editor, joining the excellent team we are building to cover finance and markets.

As many of you have experienced first-hand, Drew is an adaptable, knowledgeable and thoughtful editor. During his recent 5 ½-year run as Corporate Bureau chief, Drew has run a veritable Austro-Hungarian empire of topics, from retail and consumer products to telecom and GE. His bureau contributed more Page One stories than any other single Business bureau over the past year, and the group’s creative use of mobile and interactive graphics was unmatched.

Before that, Drew was deputy managing editor at the Ticker — a post that involved running coverage of banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions while helping oversee all company coverage at Dow Jones Newswires. He took that job after heading up the Newswires’ energy coverage for several years back when $50 oil seemed enormously expensive. He also was a founding member of the Hub.

Drew joined Dow Jones as a stringer in Cairo, Egypt. He’s an Oklahoma native who spent his formative years in Iran and earned a history degree at Emory University. He lives with his wife and two daughters in New Jersey.

Please wish Drew well on his next adventure.