WSJ names two new tech reporters

Wall Street Journal technology editor Jonathan Krim sent out the following staff promotions on Tuesday:

We are excited to announce two important technology advancements:

Evelyn Rusli, who has doggedly covered Facebook for us, will be moving over to a new beat covering innovation and the forces that power it, including early stage and venture funding, intellectual property, and the art and science of idea creation and sustainability.

Evelyn’s background for this important beat is a perfect fit: She joined us from the New York Times last fall, where she spent two years on the technology-deals beat. Prior to that, Evelyn was a reporter and video anchor at TechCrunch and Forbes, and is one of the best sourced reporters covering Silicon Valley. She is a graduate of Princeton University.

Second, Elizabeth Dwoskin will be joining the SF bureau to cover the Big Data/Big Brother beat. This new beat will focus on the emergence of data — how it is increasingly collected, mined, used and manipulated — as a powerful commercial enterprise. This is a technology story, a story of rapidly growing businesses and valuations, and one that touches myriad privacy issues.

Elizabeth joins us from the Washington bureau of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine and Bloomberg Businessweek.com, where since 2011 she has covered a variety of topics, including the heated immigration debate, the Obama administration’s record on transparency, whether states should publish college graduates’ salaries online, and Hilary Clinton’s business legacy as secretary of state.

Prior to her BBW work, Elizabeth was a staff writer at the Village Voice, where her clips included the story of a Citibank employee who was fired for “being too hot.”

Elizabeth holds a bachelors degree in anthropology and a masters in journalism from Columbia University. She speaks Portuguese, Spanish, is conversational in Hebrew, and likes yoga and biking. She will join the bureau in late August.

Evelyn’s move, and the impending departure of Amir Efrati, means that we now have two of our premiere corporate beats — Facebook and Google — open. Please let us know ASAP if you are interested.