WSJ hires new reporters for corporate team

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We’re thrilled to announce several new hires for our company coverage as nicely as a extremely specific marketing and other openings in the U.S. and Asia. Remember to be a part of us in welcoming and congratulating these fantastic journalists. And remember to be in contact if you feel you could like to sign up for our squad masking world-wide enterprise or want to recommend an individual.

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Jamie, Drew, Gordon

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In the U.S.

Brad Reagan

Brad Reagan is taking on an expanded job as Engineering Tasks Editor. This title is a recognition and affirmation of Brad’s perform driving some of our most unforgettable and impactful journalism in recent years–notably such as the award-profitable Fb Data files series–often pulling with each other reporters from across groups and bureaus. Brad also will continue on as deputy of our SF tech bureau and will go on to spearhead our social media and Google protection.

Brad previously served in editing roles in the Journal’s finance and sporting activities departments and ahead of that wrote guides on subjects which includes skilled poker gamers and state songwriter Billy Joe Shaver. A native Texan, he now lives in Berkeley with his spouse and 7-calendar year-previous son.

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Esther Fung

Esther Fung is having on protection of UPS, FedEx, freight railroads and supply chains. A Knight-Bagehot fellow this earlier calendar year, Esther previously coated business serious estate for the Journal for a lot more than a 10 years and landed memorable scoops such as on Amazon’s moves into grocery outlets and department suppliers. Esther joined the Journal in Shanghai, wherever she included the house current market in China and also helped go over disasters this sort of as the Malaysian Airways Flight 370 disappearance.

Esther won the NAREE Silver Award for Greatest Commercial Authentic Estate Tale for an posting about how significant bets on concept-park like sights backfired for malls through the pandemic. She gained a SABEW Most effective in Business Award in 2018 for her post about the demise of U.S. malls in the Journal’s “Retail in Crisis” series. A Singapore indigenous who attended college there, Esther is fluent in Mandarin and a foodie. When not on a hike or mushroom stroll, she is mastering to dance the tango or bouldering. She will join the Company Bureau in New York.

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Berber Jin

Berber Jin is joining the Journal to deal with undertaking funds and startups. Berber will come to us from the Information, exactly where he rapidly proven himself as a major voice on this topic. His tales there broke news on the trader frenzy for cash-burning prompt-delivery startups, dug into how founders took gain of soaring valuations, and profiled large VC companies, such as a tale on Benchmark’s struggle to deal with sector adjustments and 1 on how Masayoshi Son’s ambitions for SoftBank’s investments ended up discouraged. Prior to the Information and facts, Berber was at Insider.

Initially from Scarsdale, N.Y., Berber graduated from Stanford College with levels in record 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 Technological innovation Bureau in San Francisco.

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Sarah Krouse

Sarah Krouse is rejoining the Journal to include Netflix and the battle for supremacy in streaming online video. Sarah also comes to us from the Info, exactly where she has experienced a stellar run masking Google and its navigation of the shifting online advertisement business, and tech broadly. Earlier, Sarah spent six several years at the Journal covering investing and telecommunications. Her work involved scoops these as the news that Tim Armstrong was leaving Verizon/AOL, and memorable business like on the money incentives behind robocall ripoffs. She was a chief on our series on the rise of passive investing.

Sarah was named a News Media Alliance 2018 Climbing Star and was component of a workforce that acquired the New York Press Club’s 2018 Client Reporting Award for an investigation of Morningstar fund scores. She started off her profession at the Washington Enterprise Journal. She is a Broadway buff, newbie guitar participant and pet dog rescue volunteer who life in Connecticut with her spouse and hound. She will join the Media & Internet marketing team in New York.

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Miles Kruppa

Miles Kruppa is signing up for the Journal to include Google and its Alphabet kin. Miles was previously at the Economic Moments in San Francisco, exactly where he sent scoops and agenda-setting options masking enterprise cash and startups. His stories explored the frenzy for crypto investments and the later on collapse in the current market for NFTs, broke news on the Trump-TikTok saga, and took audience inside of the rise of Tiger International Management. Prior to that, Miles described on hedge cash for Complete Return.

Miles earned a bachelor’s diploma in English from Rice College, where by he edited the pupil newspaper, the Rice Thresher. A indigenous of Austin, Texas, Miles is also an avid tennis player and reader of European fiction. He will join the Technologies Bureau in San Francisco.

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Benoit Morenne

Benoit Morenne is signing up for the Journal to cover fracking and the all-natural-gasoline export business. Benoit arrives to us from the Deseret Information in Utah, where by he has been producing stories on local climate alter in the West and other topics for that publication’s journal. He was earlier an intern in the Journal’s Paris bureau, and has been a regular freelance contributor to The Long term of Every thing sections. He formerly wrote for the New York Moments in Paris, and has also written for the Economist and Christian Science Watch, between other publications.

A native 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 Centre as a J-faculty pupil. He will be part of the U.S. power group in Houston.

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In Asia

Selina Cheng

Selina Cheng has joined the Journal to cover China’s auto market from Hong Kong. Selina was previously a reporter for Hong Kong No cost Push, the investigative crew of local information outlet HK01 and Quartz in New York. She has received journalism awards in Asia and the U.S., like for scoops revealing Hong Kong government’s lobbying endeavours in the U.S. Capitol and Wikipedia’s sanctions versus a team of Chinese power end users. She acquired her bachelor’s diploma at Sorbonne College in Paris and her masters at Columbia Journalism College. She likes camping trips however they do not usually flip out as hoped.

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Raffaele Huang

Raffaele Huang is now covering China’s technological know-how companies, dependent 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 school in Beijing, Hong Kong and Italy. He has a master’s degree in financial journalism from Hong Kong Baptist University. Raf enjoys classical new music and photography, and is hunting forward to exploring a new town.

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Shen Lu

Shen Lu joins the China bureau to protect the country’s technology sector. She has described on China given that 2015 from in and outside the house its borders. Prior to joining the Journal, she was a senior reporter at Protocol covering Chinese technologies. Her writing has appeared in the New York Moments, Overseas Plan, Politico Journal, and ChinaFile, amid other individuals. She has gained awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Society for Advancing Business Enhancing and Creating and the Society of Specialist Journalists. Shen Lu is an avid cook dinner.

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In the meantime, we have openings. In Media & Promoting, we are searching for a Television information and sporting activities media reporter. Please call Amol Sharma. In San Francisco, we are on the lookout for a reporter to address Twitter and social media. Remember to make contact with Jason Dean and Brad Reagan. In Asia, we are seeking for a reporter to include world wide organization in China as nicely a reporter to deal with firms in Japan. Please get hold of Yoko Kubota for China and Peter Landers for Japan.

And that is just for now. Extra ahead.