Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the adhering to on Monday:
Expensive All,
I’m delighted to announce a pair of moves in information coverage that will improve our leadership and bolster our ambitious news-gathering, audience engagement and editing throughout all our platforms.
Elena Cherney, who ably stepped into a new part overseeing our information protection chiefs during the pandemic, will take on the title of Chief News Editor. This transfer improved displays the major concentration of her job, which is to perform with all the information coverage chiefs and have key accountability for driving our each day agenda, doing work intently with me, Jason and Neal. The information protection chiefs continue to report to Elena and to work with her to guarantee that we are proudly owning the news minute and delivering authoritative and bold coverage throughout all of our platforms. Elena proceeds to report to me.
Kimberly Johnson is getting on a new role as Deputy Main Information Editor, whilst retaining her title as Coverage Chief for Velocity & Trending. In her new and expanded function, reporting to Elena, Kimberly will proceed to oversee the S&T staff even though actively playing a essential part helping to drive information protection. Between other benefits, this go will allow S&T to be far more fully built-in with all our coverage parts. With Kimberly and S&T taking on a broader mandate, we will be greater positioned as a newsroom to respond to more stories rapidly. We expect to be incorporating some jobs to the staff as properly to boost output and hrs.
Kimberly of system provides sharp information judgment and deep awareness of organization, and has a report of creating and leading teams throughout the newsroom. She has created Pace & Trending into a formidable force that jumps on a large array of tales and has widened the scope of matters we compose about. Right before getting on the S&T position, Kimberly was Professional Items Editor, where she extra 3 new verticals to the Journal’s lineup for company and finance pros. When managing Professional, she assisted conceive and guide the undertaking discovering the legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, a Pulitzer finalist previously this calendar year.
Just before becoming a member of the Journal in 2014 as news editor for CFO Journal, Kimberly included financial action in sub-Saharan Africa for different publications. She also has lined the automobile marketplace for the Involved Push in Detroit, and has labored at the Denver Article, New Haven Sign up, Boston Globe and CNN. A indigenous of Flushing, Queens, she retains undergraduate and graduate levels in journalism from Boston University. She and her spouse are living on the Upper West Side.
Elena has experienced two stints at the Journal, as a reporter early in her job and far more just lately as a bureau main and senior editor. She joined the Journal’s Toronto bureau in 2000, masking a large assortment of company, finance and normal information tales. From 2007 as a result of 2014, she held a collection of senior editing roles at Canada’s Globe and Mail, which includes as editor of its Report on Small business, prior to returning to the Journal to develop into Canada bureau main. Elena was born in British Columbia, grew up in Montreal and is a graduate of Yale University. Just lately married, she has two higher education-age kids and two stepsons.
As you all know, Kimberly and Elena carry to their new roles a deep comprehension of The Journal and our information mission. I’m thrilled to see how this group, doing work with our superb coverage chiefs, helps continue to elevate our journalism. You should join me in congratulating them.
– Matt