Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ names digital editor for markets

Francesco Guerrera, the editor of the money and investing section of The Wall Street Journal, made the following staff announcement on Tuesday:

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Janet Paskin as Digital Editor, Markets.

In her new role, Janet will oversee and manage the new Markets’ Stream story and mobile application, as well as taking responsibility for driving online coverage by the Money & Investing Group.

A talented journalist with vast experience in both print and online, Janet has been the editor of Smartmoney.com and personal finance editor of WSJ.com for the past 18 months. During her tenure she led an overhaul of the look and feel of the SmartMoney website, adding new features and refreshing its design. The results have been excellent, with traffic to articles increasing more than 40% in 2011.

Before that, Janet worked as a reporter at SmartMoney magazine and Money magazine – honing skills first developed as a ferocious sports reporter in Long Island and Philadelphia.

Janet will co-report to Francesco and Raju and work very closely with our first-class online team that includes Brian Hershberg, the real-time deputy for the Markets desk; Stephen Grocer, M&I’S  Blogs Editor; and WSJ.com’s Kate Milani on the Hub.

Please join us in welcoming Janet to her new role.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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