WSJ names executive editor for Europe, Africa and Middle East

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

I’m delighted to announce that Gren Manuel is appointed Executive Editor, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Gren will spearhead our integration in the region and will oversee the operations of the combined newsroom. He will work with Thorold Barker in developing a strategy for the expansion of all our news platforms in the region.
Gren is currently senior editor running our Newswires operation in Europe and has worked tirelessly to bring the wire, WSJ.com and the European edition of the Wall Street Journal closer together.
He spent approaching half his journalism career in Asia, first as a reporter and columnist for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, and then at the Hong Kong bureau of the Wall Street Journal. He joined Newswires in 2001 when he returned to London. Prior to his stint in Asia he wrote on a freelance basis for a wide variety of U.K. publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian and The Observer. He will report to Thorold Barker.
Please join me in congratulating Gren on his appointment.

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.