Rob Wells, the Washington bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, and Mark Anderson, the deputy bureau chief, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Thursday:

Please join us in congratulating Maya Jackson Randall, Jared Favole and Jeffrey Sparshott on new beat assignments in the Washington bureau. Maya will cover national economic issues with a focus on the U.S. Treasury’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and personal finance issues such as credit cards. Jared will be the White House reporter, full-time, focusing on economic policy. And Jeffrey will be the senior Treasury reporter, covering the Treasury secretary and U.S. fiscal policy.

Maya, who joined the Dow Jones Washington bureau in 2004, most recently covered the White House and previously held beats covering the Treasury, economic issues and energy policy. She won a William R. Clabby award and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award, in conjunction with Michael Crittenden, this year for her reporting on the financial crisis. Prior to Dow Jones, Maya was associate editor at McGraw-Hill’s Inside FERC publication and a reporter at Money Magazine. She has a master’s degree in journalism from University of Maryland, College Park, Md. and a bachelor’s degree from Howard University in Washington. She also interned for The Wall Street Journal in Washington in 2001.

Jared came to the Washington bureau in 2008 to cover the Food and Drug Administration after two years at the former Corporate Filings Alert. He has was assigned to the White House on an interim basis in April, 2010, filling in for Maya while she was on leave. Jared holds a degree in journalism and English from the University of Maryland and a Master’s of Arts in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis.

Jeffrey joined Dow Jones in 2007, working in London on the natural resources team, and recently transferred to the Washington bureau. In London, he was a news editor on the energy team and previously worked as a mining equities reporter. Jeffrey joined Dow Jones from Platts’ London office where he was a U.K. power market reporter. He holds a Master of Arts, International Affairs, from George Washington University in Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and International Relations from Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

Rob Wells, the Washington bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, made the following announcement to the staff on Friday afternoon:

I am pleased to announce a new beat and promotion for Mike Crittenden. He is now reporting full-time on foreign exchange-related and economic issues as a member of the economy team. He will work closely with international finance reporter Ian Talley, Federal Reserve reporter Luca Di Leo, trade reporter Tom Barkley and colleagues at The Wall Street Journal.

Crittenden joined Newswires in September 2007 and quickly moved to the bureau’s lead financial services reporter job. He led Newswires coverage of financial regulation during the 2008 financial crisis, the TARP bailout and the debate that led to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street overhaul bill. He scored many exclusives along the way. Crittenden and Maya Jackson Randall shared a Newswires Clabby Award and a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award this year for breaking news on funding of the TARP program and the Federal Reserve Board’s internal deliberations about the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch merger.

Crittenden came to Newswires from Congressional Quarterly, where he had covered financial services and economic news in the Capitol. His knowledge of the banking industry was honed while at SNL Financial Inc., where he served as senior editor following banking and financial issues for professional clients.

He is a graduate of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., with a degree in print journalism and political science. He was a Robert E. Lee Honor Scholar at the school.

DISCLOSURE: Crittenden was a student of mine at Washington and Lee. I also hired him to work for me at SNL Financial.

Linda Fung, managing editor of North American equities at Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Friday:

I am pleased to announce that George Stahl has been promoted to Deputy Managing Editor of the Dow Jones News Service. George has done a superb job in strengthening our news-breaking abilities in the corporate beats handled by reporters in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. In his new role, George will continue to oversee coverage in those cities and will also be responsible for our bureaus in Chicago and San Francisco, as well as overseeing the Rewrite Desk operations. Reporting to George will be Chicago Bureau Chief Doug Cameron, San Francisco Bureau Chief Andrew Morse and Assistant News Editor Kevin Kingsbury. News Editor Nick VonKlock and George’s team of tech, media, telecom and health-care reporters will continue reporting to George.

George has been an assistant managing editor at the News Service since 2006. Prior to that, he was a News Editor overseeing a number of our bureau reporters and the enterprise reporting assistants as well. Before that, he was an Assistant News Editor on our spot news desk. George joined Dow Jones in 1996 as a Copyreader and later worked as a Copy Editor on the Spot News desk. Prior to joining Dow Jones, he was a reporter and copy editor at the News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware. He was also a copy editor for Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White Plains, NY. George earned a degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

Please join me in congratulating George and wishing him the best in his new role. He will continue to report to me.

Dow Jones Newswires assistant managing editor Bob McGough sent out the following announcement on Tuesday:

I’m happy to announce Dave Benoit will be joining the U.S. financial services reporting team as a reporter covering commercial banks, working alongside veteran banking reporter Matthias Rieker. Dave will take the place of Marshall Eckblad, who is moving to Chicago and taking a reporting position with Dow Jones’ Wealth Management group.

Dave is currently a reporter on the hot stocks desk, explaining big moves in stocks in all industries. He’s also been covering on occasion the federal court for newswires and The Wall Street Journal, including breaking news, appearances and case filings, and has written stock-market stories among other assignments. He’s written about topics ranging from the financial impact of the Massey mine disaster to the Kenneth Starr fraud case to a company controlling a quarter of New York City’s taxi medallions. He’s worked for Dow Jones since 2008.

Dave graduated from Boston College Cum Laude with degrees in English and history, and hails from Boston. He starts his new position on Nov. 1. Please join me in welcoming him to his new beat.

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Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent out the following announcement to the staff on Thursday afternoon:

I’m delighted to announce that Steve Wisnefski will become Senior Editor, Americas, for Dow Jones Newswires. He will take on many of the editorial oversight responsibilities now held by Gabriella Stern and Rick Stine, who have been admirable news navigators. As announced, Gabriella is moving to become managing editor of our clandestine Special Project. Rick becomes the senior editor responsible for innovation because, well, he is innovative and has created the first phase of our Special Project, about which no more can be said.

Steve will supervise the sterling Linda Fung, Managing Editor for North American equities; Bart Fraust, Managing Editor of the Americas Copy Desk; Charlie Roth, Assistant Managing Editor for Latin America; Rob Wells, Washington Bureau Chief; the yet-to-be-appointed managing editor for Americas resources and the bureau chief for Canada; and Management Assistant Lorane Reid. Steve will report to Neal Lipschutz, Newswires’ Managing Editor and Guardian Angel.

Rick, who has served as Senior Editor, Americas, since 2005, will continue to supervise Adam Smallman, Managing Editor for investment banking, whose team has had much success in creating an investment bank “vertical”, and Brian Cronk, Managing Editor for wealth management. He will continue to report to Neal.

Linda will get additional responsibilities, taking over supervision of Mark Stein, Assistant Managing Editor for U.S. corporate debt coverage, and the corporate debt and municipal bond reporters.

Steve is ideally suited for his new role. Since November 2009, he has served as Managing Editor of Americas energy and commodities coverage. For most of 2009, he was Deputy Managing Editor for Dow Jones News Service in New York, overseeing our US stock markets reporting and the Monitor and Rewrite desks. From 2005 to 2008, he was Chicago bureau chief, leading coverage of exchanges and transportation, among other industries. He joined Dow Jones in 1997 as a reporter in Sao Paulo and later became bureau chief for Brazil.

Rick, a 27-year veteran of Dow Jones, has served as Senior Editor, Americas, since 2005. He was Managing Editor for North American equities from 1999 to 2005. Through his long managerial career, Rick has thought creatively about the news and how we present it. He developed or advanced a number of enhancements to the wires, from columns and content sets to NewsPlus to our more recent hush-hush venture.

Linda has served as Managing Editor for North American equities since 2005. She has been the czarina of fixed-income and equities, a copy editor, chief of spot news, Chicago bureau chief, and assistant and deputy managing editor for North American equities. In other words, Linda knows virtually everything about virtually everything.

Please join me in wishing Steve, Rick and Linda much success in their new assignments.