WSJ’s Brewster leaving paper for parent company

Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Deborah Brewster, who overees hiring and recruiting at the paper, is leaving for a job at the paper’s new parent company.

Here is the announcement Friday from managing editor Gerard Baker:

After four highly productive years at Dow Jones, Deborah Brewster is leaving us to take up a senior position in the new NewsCorp.

Deborah has been a stalwart and trusted member of our leadership team, a deputy managing editor who has executed with great aplomb and dispatch her twin roles: overseeing the management of human talent across the newsroom, and leading our graphics, art direction and photography teams. She has also been a source of impeccable judgment and wise counsel on many other areas of importance and she will be greatly missed. Before joining Dow Jones, Deborah had already had a long and distinguished career in journalism in Australia and the United States. Fortunately for us, of course, she is not going far, and will be taking that experience and talent upstairs. I look forward to collaborating further with her as we work to make the new company the best publishing business in the world.

I will be announcing a successor shortly but please join me in thanking Deborah for her contribution to Dow Jones’s great progress in the last three years and in wishing her even more success in her new role.