WSJ names new day editor

Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Matt Murray sent out the following announcement:

I’m delighted to announce that our new day editor will be Kate Ortega.

In our evolving newsroom, Kate as day editor will have several important duties, and will bring great visual, digital and organizational chops to the Hub. Besides the traditional handling of print layouts,  Kate will be the overseer and organizer of our new morning digital sked and implementer of the daily digital news plan, working closely with Erin, Steve and the rest of the Hub. She will shepherd several other important tasks as well, among them corrections and ongoing training sessions for desk editors. Kate succeeds the estimable Bill Power, now an editor in Larry Rout’s Special Reports team. Kate will report to me, working closely with Steve, Erin and the entire editing team.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Kate is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University who joined the WSJ in 1999 as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern on the overseas copy desk. She moved to WSJ.com at the end of that summer, eventually working her way into interactive graphics, where she was a pioneer for us. She has been deputy graphics chief since we integrated the online and print graphics teams in 2012. Most important, she and her husband are new parents to a daughter who is now almost five months old.

Please send Kate your congratulations and best wishes.