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Meet The Five Men Who Run the New Wall Street Journal

Meet The Five Men Who Run the New Wall Street Journal

Deputy managing editor Jim Pensiero of The Wall Street Journal just sent an e-mail out to the enitre staff announcing, or clarifying, the roles of everyone on the new masthead of the newspaper working below Robert Thomson, whose title of managing editor is the traditional Journal title for the person on top of the pile.

There are four of them besides Mr. Thomson: Nik Deogun, Mike Miller, Matt Murray Mike Williams.

From the e-mail:

Senior DME/Features/Mike Miller

Key tasks: Senior deputy to the managing editor; responsible for features sections, including Personal Journal, Weekend Journal, Journal Reports and the WSJ magazine.

Works with: National, International and Page One editors.  read more »

Robert Thomson Speaks!

Robert Thomson Speaks!

This morning in a classroom at the CUNY School of Journalism, Robert Thomson gave his first public speech as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal at a kick-off event for a conference for South Asian Journalists Association.

In Mr. Thomson’s remarks, and in a question-and-answer session that followed, he said The Journal would most likely move to News Corp.’s headquarters next spring, wsj.com would be redesigned in the fall and that, yes, The Journal is still a business paper.

“Is The Wall Street Journal a business newspaper? Of course it is. The first thing we did was increase the international coverage.  read more »