Colin Barr of Fortune magazine will start Monday as the new banking editor of The Wall Street Journal.
He replaces Jared Sandberg, who left the Journal in late May to become editor of Bloomberg.com.
Barr tells Talking Biz News via e-mail that he will work for the Money & Investing section. Thursday was his last day at Fortune after nearly four years as a senior writer for the magazine.
Barr was named one of the top 25 finance bloggers this year by Time, and won a 2006 SABEW Best in Business award for the weekly Five Dumbest Things on Wall Street column.
Before joining Fortune, he was a writer and companies editor for nine years at TheStreet.com, and before that an editor at Dow Jones News Service.
He’s a 1991 Penn State graduate.
