WSJ’s Asia life and style editor moving to New York

Mike Miller, deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff move on Tuesday:

I’m pleased to announce that Andrew LaVallee will join our growing arts and culture team in New York as a senior editor, with oversight of the daily arts pages in our Greater New York section. Reporting jointly to GNY editor John Seeley and Arena editor Eben Shapiro, Andrew will help us more closely integrate the GNY arts coverage with that of the rest of the WSJ.  Because New York is such an important hub for global arts and culture, New York arts stories are frequently global stories, and global arts stories are frequently New York stories.  Andrew will work with John and Eben to help the staffs of GNY and Arena and our reporters around the world cover this crucial and fascinating subject for GNY, Arena, and other parts of the print and digital Journal.

Andrew is currently weekend and life and style editor in Asia, where he oversees Scene Asia as well as the Asia-edition Off Duty and Life & Style sections. Based in Hong Kong since 2010, he previously was special projects editor for the region, managing our expansion of the Real Time network into India, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia, as well as launching new life & style, mobile and social-media initiatives.

He joined the Journal in 2006 and spent four years in the New York bureau covering telecoms, technology and media, and was the lead writer on the team that launched Digits. He began his journalism career at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass.

In his pre-journalist life, Andrew worked as a producer and project manager at DoubleClick and Razorfish, an architecture intern at Rogers Marvel and an artist’s assistant to Yoko Ono Lennon. Born in Portland, Maine, and raised in Mobile, Ala., he studied English and clarinet performance at Oberlin College and received a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

Please join me in congratulating Andrew and welcoming him back to New York.