Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ names Elliott as real time special project editor

Dave Pettit, editor of institutional news and data at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff promotion on Monday afternoon:

We’re pleased to announce that Nick Elliott is taking on additional duties as a real-time-news special-project editor.

Nick joins the newsroom team helping drive development of features and analytics that will enhance our news on DJX and our growing specialized coverage areas that appear in Dominant. Nick remains editor of the specialized, professional news services that he has led since 2010 and editor of Risk & Compliance Journal. Nick has been with Dow Jones since 1990, working in London and New York. He was managing editor of the Dow Jones Commodities Service before joining his current group when it was formed in 2003.

Nick will report to Dave Pettit for news strategy and DJX/Newswires development. He will report to Francesco Guerrera for news matters tied to the private equity and bankruptcy services and to Dennis Berman for news matters tied to venture capital and risk & compliance services.

Please join us in congratulating Nick.

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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