WSJ hires new reporters for corporate team

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We’re thrilled to announce many new hires for our corporate coverage as properly as a very particular advertising and other openings in the U.S. and Asia. Remember to join us in welcoming and congratulating these fantastic journalists. And you should be in contact if you imagine you may possibly like to join our squad masking world-wide business or want to propose somebody.

Pretty finest,

Jamie, Drew, Gordon

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In the U.S.

Brad Reagan is getting on an expanded purpose as Technological innovation Projects Editor. This title is a recognition and affirmation of Brad’s get the job done driving some of our most unforgettable and impactful journalism in modern years–notably such as the award-winning Facebook Information series–often pulling with each other reporters from across teams and bureaus. Brad also will go on as deputy of our SF tech bureau and will go on to spearhead our social media and Google protection.

Brad earlier served in editing roles in the Journal’s finance and sporting activities departments and prior to that wrote guides on topics which include specialist poker players and country songwriter Billy Joe Shaver. A indigenous Texan, he now lives in Berkeley with his wife and 7-yr-previous son.

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Esther Fung is taking on protection of UPS, FedEx, freight railroads and source chains. A Knight-Bagehot fellow this previous year, Esther earlier covered professional real estate for the Journal for a lot more than a ten years and landed memorable scoops like on Amazon’s moves into grocery stores and division outlets. Esther joined the Journal in Shanghai, wherever she covered the house sector in China and also helped deal with disasters such as the Malaysian Airways Flight 370 disappearance.

Esther gained the NAREE Silver Award for Ideal Commercial True Estate Story for an article about how massive bets on theme-park like attractions backfired for malls for the duration of the pandemic. She gained a SABEW Best in Business Award in 2018 for her article about the demise of U.S. malls in the Journal’s “Retail in Crisis” series. A Singapore native who attended university there, Esther is fluent in Mandarin and a foodie. When not on a hike or mushroom wander, she is mastering to dance the tango or bouldering. She will be part of the Corporate Bureau in New York.

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Berber Jin is signing up for the Journal to cover undertaking funds and startups. Berber comes to us from the Facts, where he promptly established himself as a main voice on this matter. His tales there broke information on the investor frenzy for funds-burning prompt-supply startups, dug into how founders took edge of soaring valuations, and profiled massive VC corporations, which include a tale on Benchmark’s struggle to deal with field improvements and 1 on how Masayoshi Son’s objectives for SoftBank’s investments were being pissed off. Prior to the Info, Berber was at Insider.

Originally from Scarsdale, N.Y., Berber graduated from Stanford College with degrees in background and economics. In his free of charge time, he enjoys taking part in tennis and listening to new indie pop albums. He is an avid pianist, is fluent in Mandarin and speaks Russian and Spanish. He will sign up for the Technologies Bureau in San Francisco.

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Sarah Krouse is rejoining the Journal to cover Netflix and the fight for supremacy in streaming movie. Sarah also will come to us from the Information, where by she has experienced a stellar run masking Google and its navigation of the shifting on-line advert business, and tech broadly. Before, Sarah used six several years at the Journal covering investing and telecommunications. Her operate provided scoops these types of as the information that Tim Armstrong was leaving Verizon/AOL, and memorable enterprise such as on the economic incentives driving robocall scams. She was a leader on our sequence on the rise of passive investing.

Sarah was named a News Media Alliance 2018 Increasing Star and was part of a team that gained the New York Push Club’s 2018 Shopper Reporting Award for an investigation of Morningstar fund rankings. She began her job at the Washington Business Journal. She is a Broadway buff, newbie guitar participant and dog rescue volunteer who life in Connecticut with her husband and hound. She will join the Media & Marketing team in New York.

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Miles Kruppa is joining the Journal to go over Google and its Alphabet kin. Miles was earlier at the Fiscal Situations in San Francisco, wherever he delivered scoops and agenda-location features covering enterprise funds and startups. His tales explored the frenzy for crypto investments and the later on collapse in the industry for NFTs, broke information on the Trump-TikTok saga, and took visitors inside of the increase of Tiger Global Management. In advance of that, Miles reported on hedge funds for Complete Return.

Miles gained a bachelor’s diploma in English from Rice College, wherever he edited the scholar newspaper, the Rice Thresher. A native of Austin, Texas, Miles is also an avid tennis player and reader of European fiction. He will join the Technology Bureau in San Francisco.

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Benoit Morenne is signing up for the Journal to go over fracking and the organic-fuel export industry. Benoit will come to us from the Deseret Information in Utah, where by he has been composing stories on weather mod
ify in the West and other matters for that publication’s magazine. He was previously an intern in the Journal’s Paris bureau, and has been a frequent freelance contributor to The Upcoming of Almost everything sections. He previously wrote for the New York Moments in Paris, and has also prepared for the Economist and Christian Science Check, among the other publications.

A indigenous of France, Benoit is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He explored the legacy of a Louisiana race riot with a grant from the Pulitzer Center as a J-school college student. He will be part of the U.S. vitality staff in Houston.

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In Asia

Selina Cheng has joined the Journal to address China’s vehicle market place from Hong Kong. Selina was earlier a reporter for Hong Kong Absolutely free Push, the investigative crew of local news outlet HK01 and Quartz in New York. She has gained journalism awards in Asia and the U.S., including for scoops revealing Hong Kong government’s lobbying efforts in the U.S. Capitol and Wikipedia’s sanctions against a team of Chinese electrical power people. She received her bachelor’s degree at Sorbonne University in Paris and her masters at Columbia Journalism College. She likes tenting excursions nevertheless they really don’t often convert out as hoped.

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Raffaele Huang is now masking China’s technology corporations, dependent in Singapore. Earlier, he was a researcher at the Beijing bureau focusing on automotive and tech information. He is from China’s southern Guangdong province and went to faculty in Beijing, Hong Kong and Italy. He has a master’s degree in fiscal journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University. Raf loves classical new music and images, and is seeking ahead to checking out a new town.

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Shen Lu joins the China bureau to deal with the country’s technological innovation sector. She has documented on China considering the fact that 2015 from in and outside its borders. Prior to signing up for the Journal, she was a senior reporter at Protocol covering Chinese technologies. Her crafting has appeared in the New York Instances, Foreign Plan, Politico Journal, and ChinaFile, amid others. She has obtained awards from the Modern society of Publishers in Asia, the Culture for Advancing Business Editing and Creating and the Modern society of Professional Journalists. Shen Lu is an avid prepare dinner.

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In the meantime, we have openings. In Media & Marketing, we are hunting for a Television set information and sporting activities media reporter. Please call Amol Sharma. In San Francisco, we are hunting for a reporter to cover Twitter and social media. Be sure to get in touch with Jason Dean and Brad Reagan. In Asia, we are wanting for a reporter to deal with global business in China as effectively a reporter to include corporations in Japan. Remember to make contact with Yoko Kubota for China and Peter Landers for Japan.

And that is just for now. Much more ahead.