WSJ shuffles financial team assignments

Wall Street Journal Money & Investing editor Francesco Guerrera sent out the following staff changes on Tuesday:

Like the markets that we cover, the Finance and Markets team never stops. To help us in our real-time and print endeavors we have added a few new faces and assigned some familiar ones to new beats. We are delighted to announce the following moves:

BANKING

Emily Glazer has joined the team to cover J.P. Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo. She is particularly well-suited to the task, having broken, or helped to break, some of our biggest stories of the past year on the deals team’s bankruptcy beat, from TXU, the largest leveraged buyout ever to go bust, to the woes of Detroit and Puerto Rico corporate distress at RadioShack, American Apparel, Sbarro and Quiznos. Before joining Money & Investing, Emily covered consumer-products companies like Procter & Gamble, Herbalife and Avon. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and participated in the Medill Innocence Project, where her work contributed to a victory in a Supreme Court case.

Christina Rexrode is also on board, covering Bank of America and Citigroup. She recently joined us from MarketWatch, where she wrote frequently on the financial-services industry and the stock market. Christina also has served stints at the Associated Press, St. Petersburg Times and the Charlotte Observer, where she covered banks and broke big news on Bank of America and Wachovia. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, Christina once ignited a blog storm when Rep. Brad Miller from the state’s 13^th District told her he would rather cheer for the Taliban than Duke basketball.

Julie Steinberg now covers investment banks, securities firms, brokerages and state securities regulators. She previously covered wealth management and high-net-worth investing for the Weekend Investor section. She also worked as a reporter for FINS.com, the finance career website from the Wall Street Journal. Julie and a colleague won a 2012 SABEW award for coverage of brokerage firm MF Global.

Saabira Chaudhuri joined the banking team after working as a breaking news reporter on the rewrite desk at Dow Jones Newswires. She now covers breaking stories on a wide variety of banking and financial topics and is the resident expert on bank earnings season. Prior to her work on the rewrite desk, she was the multimedia editor for Mint, India’s second-largest business daily. Before that, she was an associate online editor at FastCompany magazine in New York and an associate content producer for Forbes.

INVESTING

Dan Fitzpatrick joins the investing team to cover pension funds, an increasingly important beat as many of the nation’s public and private pension systems struggle with poor returns. Dan joined the Journal in 2008 and for the last six years covered various U.S. banks, from J.P. Morgan Chase to Bank of America, becoming a fixture on Page One and C1. He started in the Atlanta bureau and moved to New York in 2009. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri.

Timothy W. Martin joins the investing team to cover credit-ratings firms. A two-time summer intern for the Journal, he comes to New York after stints in the Journal’s Atlanta and Chicago bureaus. Most recently, Tim completed a tour of duty on the health law beat, where he helped break numerous Page One stories related to the Affordable Care Act. He’s also covered the nation’s addiction to OxyContin and introduced Journal readers to extreme couponing. Tim, who was born in Gwangju, South Korea, grew up in rural central Illinois. He likes Psy but isn’t a Gangnam Style fan.

MARKETS

Aaron Kuriloff has joined the credit markets team to cover the municipal bond market. He hails from Bloomberg where he wrote features about sports including football and sailing as well as culture and travel for the Bloomberg newswire and various magazines. Aaron developed a specialty digging into the financing of major league sports teams and stadiums, uncovering how tax breaks on stadium bonds will cost the public about $4 billion nationwide. He also exposed the former NBA players union chief Billy Hunter’s $4.8 million of payments to Hunter family members or their businesses for doing work for the union. That reporting led to a federal investigation.

MONEYBEAT

Erik Holm has been named deputy editor of our MoneyBeat blog. Erik has been at Dow Jones since 2010, when he joined us as an insurance reporter. He’s since served as a deputy finance editor for Dow Jones and deputy editor for currencies and commodities for the Journal. He worked previously at Bloomberg News, Newsday and the now-defunct Nuclear Remediation Week. He’s also appeared on NPR’s This American Life and performed stand-up at New York’s Comedy Cellar.

Maureen Farrell has been named a reporter for our MoneyBeat blog, covering M&A and Wall Street. Prior to joining the Journal, she was a staff writer for CNNMoney and before that for Forbes. Maureen is a graduate of Duke University and Columbia Journalism School.

PERSONAL FINANCE

Liam Pleven has been named Personal Finance deputy editor. Before joining the group last year, Liam had covered commodities and insurance for M&I. Besides editing stories for and helping run the Weekend Investor section, Liam also writes features on retirement, investing and other subjects.

AnnaMaria Andriotis has joined the Personal Finance group as a reporter specializing in consumer finance. In addition to writing Weekend Investor covers and inside stories, she has already appeared numerous times on Page One and C1. Previously, AnnaMaria covered consumer finance at MarketWatch and wrote a weekly column on jumbo mortgages for the Journal’s Mansion section.

Please join us in welcoming and congratulating our colleagues,