New top editor for Wall Street Journal
Matt Murray will succeed Gerard Baker as Editor-in-Chief of the Wall
Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.
Baker becomes Editor-at-Large after 5½ years as EIC, where
circulation grew by one-third under Baker.
Northwestern graduate Murray joined Dow Jones & Company in 1994 as
a reporter for the Pittsburgh bureau, in 1997 moved to the Journal’s Money &
Investing section, covering banking, in 2008 became Deputy Managing Editor and in
2013 was elevated to Deputy Editor-in-Chief.
Mr. Murray joined the news desk in 2004, and
later served as a deputy national editor and national news editor.
After stints at the Bank of England and
Lloyds Bank, Murray became a British Broadcasting Corporation producer, then went to the Financial Times and the Times of London before joining The Wall Street
Journal.
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