Chris Stewart has been named deputy bureau chief of the media and marketing team at The Wall Street Journal.
Stewart, a former deputy editor at the New York Observer, starts his new job on Monday. He left the Observer back in March. Martin Peers, a former deputy media and marketing editor, became the top editor for the team last month.
Stewart is the author of Hunting the Tiger, a book about Zeljko “Arkan” Raznatovic, the Serbian mobster and warlord at the center of the Balkan wars in the 1990s.
He’s a former contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, where, among other things, he wrote about the Unification Church’s gun business and corruption in Iraq.
His work has also appeared in GQ, Harper’s, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Salon, Wired, and other publications.
His second book, about a lost city and an American spy who claimed he found it, will be published by Harper Studio.
