From Capital New York:
The Wall Street Journal is making moves to ramp up its enterprise coverage.
Managing
editor Gerard Baker announced several appointments that "will
strengthen our investigations team, enhance our data-reporting
resources and advance our push into immersive storytelling so that we
can broaden and extend our storytelling capacity in the emerging digital
era," he wrote in a memo posted online by The Journal's P.R. team.
Mike
Siconolfi has been named investigations editor, "forming a new group
that will combine our existing teams of investigative reporters and data
reporters under one roof," Baker wrote. "As part of its mandate, the
team will interact closely with editors and reporters across the entire
news organization, with a charge to deepen the investigative and data
skills of the entire staff."
Siconolfi's team will include an
"enhanced data journalism effort that will be led by Tom McGinty and
Rob Barry," according to Baker. "Expanding our data reporting
capability in a data-rich age is a priority, and Tom and Rob and their
team will be working with all of you to deepen our data literacy."...MORE
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