WSJ names editor for new lifestyle magazine

The Wall Street Journal on Monday named Tina Gaudoin editor of the Journal’s new high-end lifestyle magazine, which is scheduled to launch Sept. 6.

Gaudoin will work closely with the Journal’s news department and will oversee all editorial content that will appear in the publication. Additionally, she will develop a core team of magazine journalists and report to Mike Miller, deputy managing editor of The Journal.

“The magazine will provide the kind of quality editorial content that readers expect of the Journal, in new ways that will entertain and inform the Journal’s affluent and influential audience,” said Marcus W. Brauchli, managing editor of The Journal, in a statement. “Tina truly understands this niche and is well known with luxury readers and advertisers. She brings a valuable set of skills to the Journal from her extensive career in the magazine world that will greatly contribute to this new initiative.”

“I am thrilled to be joining such an august publication with such a phenomenal heritage,” said Gaudoin in a statement. “I look forward to bringing the world of The Journal reader to life, with the help of intelligent reporting, arresting visuals and a sense of humor.”

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