Washington Post hires MacMillan to cover corporate accountability

Wall Street Journal reporter Douglas MacMillan has been hired by the Washington Post to cover corporate accountability. MacMillan will be part of a new business investigations team working on stories that have broad impact. MacMillan had been covering tech policy and economics, exploring how tech companies acquire power and use it to shape people’s lives, […]

WSJ seeks a China bureau chief

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced and enterprising journalist to spearhead ambitious coverage of China — its economy, politics and people. China is the world’s most-populous nation and its second-largest economy. Its rise, and the reaction to it by other nations around the globe, is also the defining story of our time. The […]

WSJ names Cummings its DC deputy bureau chief

Wall Street Journal Washington bureau chief Paul Beckett sent out the following announcement: All: Over the past two years, we have been ramping up in the Washington bureau to reflect the huge importance of the story and to ensure that we are dominating topics that are vital for the Journal’s readers and core to the […]

WSJ partners with “Frontline” to produce documentary

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: Colleagues: I’m excited to share the news with you that for the first time, the Journal is partnering with PBS’s “Frontline” to produce an hour-long documentary. This investigation by reporters Christopher Weaver, Gabe Johnson and Dan Frosch exposes a decades-long […]

Chinese officials offered to bug offices/homes of WSJ reporters in Hong Kong

Chinese officials offered to bug the homes and offices of Wall Street Journal reporters in Hong Kong who were investigating the 1MDB fund to learn who was leaking information to them, reports Tom Wright and Bradley Hope of The Journal. Wright and Hope report, “At a meeting the next day, Sun Lijun, then head of […]

WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence has launched

Kimberly S. Johnson, editor of professional products at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement: Dear Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce the official launch of WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence. As we all know, AI is driving changes at every level of society, disrupting the way people live and work. Companies that master this change […]

WSJ editor Murray: We had a “banner” year in 2018

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following announcement to the staff: Dear Colleagues: Thanks to all of you, The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones just wrapped up a banner year. Your journalism is bringing us more readers than ever before. The newsroom advanced on multiple fronts, from our expanding leadership team to new products to […]

WSJ reporter leads opposition of mosque expansion

A Wall Street reporter, Paul Overberg, has led an opposition to the expansion of a mosque in suburban Washington, reports Paul Farhi of The Washington Post. Farhi writes, “Overberg, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal and formerly at USA Today, declined to comment. He referred questions to Carrington’s attorney and to a Journal spokesman. “In any case, his activism […]

WSJ hires Broughton to cover risk and compliance

The Wall Street Journal has hired Kristin Broughton to cover risk and compliance. Broughton was previously a reporter at American Banker, where she covered national and regional banking. She had been at that publication since May 2014. She previously spent two years at Bloomberg Government as an analyst and also worked at CQ Roll Call […]

Myers, former Page One editor at WSJ, dies at 89

Henry F. Myers, remembered as one of the great Page One rewrite men during a 40-year Wall Street Journal career, died on Dec. 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was 89. A graduate of Princeton (B.A. in history, 1951) and the University of Maryland (M.A. in economics, 1957), Myers spent his career dedicated to journalism and […]