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WSJ names editor, deputy editor of news operations

Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following staff promotions on Wednesday:

I’m delighted to announce two important leadership positions for the newly combined newsroom: Alan Anspaugh is appointed Editor, News Operations, and Chaz Repak is appointed Deputy Editor, News Operations.

In their new roles, Al and Chaz will cooperate closely on all newsroom budget issues and on budget-related staffing matters. Al will take the lead on handling U.S. staffing and financial questions as well as vendor issues, contracts and capital spending. Chaz will take the lead on international budgets and staffing, as well as on real estate and facilities.

Al is a Wall Street Journal veteran and has worked in New York, Brussels, Orlando and Dallas. He’s led News’s Market Data Group, Production’s Page Makeup Group and was managing editor of the International WSJ editions’ unified Overseas Copy Desk. Most recently, he was Assistant Managing Editor and led the Journal’s news operations dealing with budgets, salaries, contracts and content vendors. He started as a news assistant 31 years ago.

Chaz is a a long-time Newswires manager. He most recently served as Editor, Newswires Operations, serving as the Newswires’ key liaison with Human Resources, Finance and Real Estate/Facilities, and working with Technology. He was previously the wires’ operations editor for North and South America, and for Asia-Pacific during his stint in Singapore from 1997 to 2003. He joined Dow Jones in 1992 and later served as a copy editor in New York and an assistant news editor on the Asia-Pacific copy desk in Singapore. He compiled the second edition of the Newswires stylebook in 1999.

Al will report to me. Chaz will report to Al.

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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