WSJ ups its election team

The Wall Street Journal has made appointments to its team that will cover the 2016 election, reports Joe Pompeo of Politico New York, including Jeanne Cummings from Bloomberg News.

Pompeo writes, “Cummings will ‘assume the task of overseeing the daily political and White House coverage of our splendid crew of political reporters,’ editor in chief Gerry Baker wrote in a memo to staff, and her hiring ‘has freed Aaron Zitner to devote more time to rethinking and extending our political coverage into new areas where we simply must make a mark in the new media environment.’

“Additionally, Sheila Courter is rejoining the Journal’s U.S. news team as elections editor to ‘connect all the parts of the newsroom to help plan, organize and drive a wide array of journalistic and presentational imperatives, from special print sections to the look and feel of wsj.com during primary and election nights,’ according to Baker.

“‘The 2016 presidential campaign already is shaping up as the biggest and most consequential story over the next year and a half, and one that will reach far and wide to an unusual degree,’ Baker wrote.”

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