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WSJ/Dow Jones lose two in Asia

TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE

The Wall Street Journal has lost a reporter in China to the New York Times, and Dow Jones Newswires’ Tokyo bureau chief has left to become an editor for Bloomberg News.

Ken McCallum, the former Tokyo bureau chief, is now an editor for Bloomberg in Tokyo on the economics team, a Bloomberg spokeswoman confirmed on Monday.

Meanwhile, Ian Johnson, a longtime WSJ reporter, has joined the New York Times as a contract writer in Beijing, according to a source at the Times.

Johnson left the Journal largely to pursue book writing and other freelance projects. But he will spend part of his time writing for various sections of the Times and has a contract to participate, for roughly one-sixth of his time, in its news coverage in China. He is a fully accredited reporter for the Times in China.

Johnson won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. His reporting from China was also honored in 2001 by the Overseas Press Club and the Society of Professional Journalists.

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