WSJ hires new reporters for corporate team

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We’re thrilled to announce several new hires for our company protection as very well as a pretty specific promotion and other openings in the U.S. and Asia. Make sure you be part of us in welcoming and congratulating these great journalists. And be sure to be in contact if you think you could like to be part of our squad covering world wide small business or want to suggest someone.

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Jamie, Drew, Gordon

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In the U.S.

Brad Reagan is having on an expanded role as Technology Assignments 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 recent years–notably which include the award-winning Facebook Files series–often pulling collectively reporters from throughout teams and bureaus. Brad also will proceed as deputy of our SF tech bureau and will carry on to spearhead our social media and Google protection.

Brad formerly served in modifying roles in the Journal’s finance and sporting activities departments and in advance of that wrote guides on subjects which includes expert poker gamers and state songwriter Billy Joe Shaver. A indigenous Texan, he now lives in Berkeley with his wife and 7-yr-outdated son.

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Esther Fung is using on protection of UPS, FedEx, freight railroads and provide chains. A Knight-Bagehot fellow this past year, Esther previously coated business actual estate for the Journal for more than a decade and landed unforgettable scoops which includes on Amazon’s moves into grocery shops and division shops. Esther joined the Journal in Shanghai, the place she protected the property sector in China and also helped go over disasters these as the Malaysian Airways Flight 370 disappearance.

Esther won the NAREE Silver Award for Best Business True Estate Story for an short article about how major bets on topic-park like points of interest backfired for malls throughout the pandemic. She gained a SABEW Very best in Organization Award in 2018 for her article about the demise of U.S. malls in the Journal’s “Retail in Crisis” sequence. 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 studying to dance the tango or bouldering. She will be a part of the Corporate Bureau in New York.

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Berber Jin is becoming a member of the Journal to include venture funds and startups. Berber arrives to us from the Details, the place he speedily founded himself as a primary voice on this matter. His stories there broke information on the trader frenzy for money-burning instant-supply startups, dug into how founders took benefit of soaring valuations, and profiled huge VC companies, which include a tale on Benchmark’s struggle to offer with industry adjustments and just one on how Masayoshi Son’s ambitions for SoftBank’s investments ended up pissed off. Prior to the Information, Berber was at Insider.

Originally from Scarsdale, N.Y., Berber graduated from Stanford University with levels in record and economics. In his totally free time, he enjoys participating 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 be part of the Technologies Bureau in San Francisco.

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Sarah Krouse is rejoining the Journal to deal with Netflix and the fight for supremacy in streaming video clip. Sarah also arrives to us from the Information, wherever she has had a stellar operate masking Google and its navigation of the shifting on-line advert organization, and tech broadly. Earlier, Sarah invested 6 a long time at the Journal covering investing and telecommunications. Her work incorporated scoops such as the news that Tim Armstrong was leaving Verizon/AOL, and unforgettable business together with on the money incentives driving robocall frauds. She was a chief on our sequence on the increase of passive investing.

Sarah was named a News Media Alliance 2018 Increasing Star and was aspect of a crew that received the New York Push Club’s 2018 Purchaser Reporting Award for an investigation of Morningstar fund ratings. She started off her vocation at the Washington Enterprise Journal. She is a Broadway buff, novice guitar player and pet rescue volunteer who lives in Connecticut with her partner and hound. She will join the Media & Marketing team in New York.

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Miles Kruppa is joining the Journal to cover Google and its Alphabet kin. Miles was formerly at the Money Periods in San Francisco, in which he delivered scoops and agenda-environment functions masking enterprise funds and startups. His tales explored the frenzy for crypto investments and the afterwards collapse in the marketplace for NFTs, broke news on the Trump-TikTok saga, and took viewers within the rise of Tiger International Administration. In advance of that, Miles claimed on hedge money for Complete Return.

Miles gained a bachelor’s diploma in English from Rice College, wherever he edited the student 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 Engineering Bureau in San Francisco.

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Benoit Morenne is signing up for the Journal to cover fracking and the all-natural-gasoline export business. Benoit comes to us from the Deseret Information in Utah
, in which he has been writing tales on climate alter in the West and other topics for that publication’s journal. He was beforehand an intern in the Journal’s Paris bureau, and has been a regular freelance contributor to The Upcoming of Every thing sections. He formerly wrote for the New York Periods in Paris, and has also penned for the Economist and Christian Science Observe, amongst other publications.

A indigenous of France, Benoit is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate College of Journalism. He explored the legacy of a Louisiana race riot with a grant from the Pulitzer Heart as a J-faculty pupil. He will be part of the U.S. electrical power crew in Houston.

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In Asia

Selina Cheng has joined the Journal to deal with China’s auto market from Hong Kong. Selina was beforehand a reporter for Hong Kong Free of charge Press, the investigative workforce of regional news outlet HK01 and Quartz in New York. She has won journalism awards in Asia and the U.S., like for scoops revealing Hong Kong government’s lobbying efforts in the U.S. Capitol and Wikipedia’s sanctions from a group of Chinese energy buyers. She obtained her bachelor’s degree at Sorbonne University in Paris and her masters at Columbia Journalism Faculty. She likes tenting trips although they really don’t generally convert out as hoped.

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Raffaele Huang is now masking China’s technological innovation companies, based mostly in Singapore. Previously, he was a researcher at the Beijing bureau concentrating on automotive and tech information. He is from China’s southern Guangdong province and went to university in Beijing, Hong Kong and Italy. He has a master’s diploma in fiscal journalism from Hong Kong Baptist College. Raf enjoys classical audio and pictures, and is on the lookout ahead to exploring a new city.

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Shen Lu joins the China bureau to include the country’s know-how sector. She has noted on China considering that 2015 from in and outside its borders. Prior to signing up for the Journal, she was a senior reporter at Protocol covering Chinese technological innovation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, International Coverage, Politico Magazine, and ChinaFile, among the some others. She has received awards from the Modern society of Publishers in Asia, the Society for Advancing Business enterprise Enhancing and Writing and the Society of Skilled Journalists. Shen Lu is an avid cook.

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In the meantime, we have openings. In Media & Internet marketing, we are seeking for a Tv set information and athletics media reporter. Remember to call Amol Sharma. In San Francisco, we are seeking for a reporter to address Twitter and social media. Please get in touch with Jason Dean and Brad Reagan. In Asia, we are seeking for a reporter to address worldwide organization in China as effectively a reporter to deal with organizations in Japan. Remember to call Yoko Kubota for China and Peter Landers for Japan.

And that is just for now. Additional forward.