WSJ’s Edelman named Boston Globe business editor

Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

I’m delighted to announce that Larry Edelman, a former Globe business editor who has gone on to distinguished runs at Bloomberg News and, most recently, The Wall Street Journal, will be returning to Morrissey Boulevard later this month to run the Business section again.

Larry represents a tremendous get for the Globe, a true veteran of business journalism with experience in Boston and New York, someone who innately understands the psychology of a major metro business desk and the intricacies of the markets, who can shift effortlessly between print and digital.

Larry has worked since January 2014 as a senior deputy editor at the Journal, where he’s been responsible for real-time coverage of markets and finance, and assisted with the planning and editing of the Money & Investing section. Prior to that, he had a decade-long run at Bloomberg as a team leader, senior enterprise editor, and managing editor for investing and real estate. He still has many, many fans there.

As excited as I am to get Larry back in the fold, it’s important to highlight something else as well. Larry arrives in a department that has made huge strides since it got its own section front in early December. The staff then kicked it up a couple of strong notches this winter under the extraordinary interim leadership of Andrew Caffrey and Cynthia Needham. Our coverage has had more depth, our sections more urgency, and our writing more creativity with Andrew and Cynthia taking the lead. We’re beyond fortunate to have them, and I have every expectation that they will continue to excel in these vital roles.

For Larry, so much of his success began here at the Globe, where he launched a stellar run as a technology reporter in 1989. He moved to assistant business editor, before he had a strong and memorable five-year stint as business editor, ending in 1999.

His commute just got a whole lot shorter. While working in New York all these years, Larry’s been taking the train weekly from his house in Dorchester, where he and his wife, Meghan Willis, have raised three kids, the youngest of which is heading to college in September.

Please welcome Larry, who begins his new job the day after Memorial Day, and is included here.