WSJ names new US editor team, with Hall becoming US news editor

Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following announcement on Wednesday:

I’m delighted to announce a new leadership team for US News, one that will build on the progress we have made in this vital area of news coverage in the last few years and drive us to new frontiers in storytelling, digitally and in print.

Glenn Hall, currently our MarketWatch editor, will succeed Jennifer Forsyth as US news editor. In this important job, Glenn oversees US general news bureaux for print and digital platforms for all our national news coverage.

Glenn brings a wide range of experience in several news organizations to this position, as a manager, story-teller and digital driver. He joined Dow Jones from start-up news website TheBlaze.com, where he served as managing editor for news. While there, he helped nearly triple the audience to almost 18 million unique monthly visitors. Before that, Glenn was at TheStreet for four years, rising to become its Editor-in-Chief. He has also worked for The Orange County Register as Chief Innovation Officer and Deputy Editor, and spent a decade with Bloomberg News, where he led the political and government coverage in Washington, D.C. and held various team leader positions in the U.S. and abroad. He began his career as a reporter at the Journal-Gazette in Indiana, covering business, health and environmental issues.

In seven months at the helm of MarketWatch, Glenn has significantly boosted the site’s readership, initiated a mobile-first strategy, increased social media usage, and generated a crackle and buzz unrivalled in real time financial news. He will report to Rebecca Blumenstein.

Working closely with Glenn as Deputy US Editor will be Tim Layer, who succeeds Rob Rossi as he joins the standards team. Tim is a veteran of Dow Jones and the Journal with 24 years total experience here, in a wide range of jobs including: bureau chief for commercial real estate; national technology editor in the late 90s; news editor for the Dow Jones Investor Network, the first financial news service to stream live audio on the Web; and deputy managing editor of the WSJE. Last decade, he left the WSJ for 6 ½ years to scratch an entrepreneurial itch by running his own niche publishing business. Since returning to the Journal nearly three years ago, Tim has been on the Markets Desk, where he has been deputy editor since November.

We can all be excited about the direction this new team will take our US News coverage as we seek to strengthen and deepen our reporting of national news. Please join me in congratulating Glenn and Tim on their appointments.