WSJ hires new reporters for corporate team

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We’re thrilled to announce several new hires for our corporate coverage as properly as a really exclusive marketing and other openings in the U.S. and Asia. You should sign up for us in welcoming and congratulating these fantastic journalists. And remember to be in touch if you imagine you could like to join our squad covering world business or want to propose somebody.

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In the U.S.

Brad Reagan

Brad Reagan is getting on an expanded job as Technologies Assignments Editor. This title is a recognition and affirmation of Brad’s perform driving some of our most unforgettable and impactful journalism in new years–notably including the award-successful Fb Data files series–often pulling alongside one another reporters from throughout groups and bureaus. Brad also will go on as deputy of our SF tech bureau and will carry on to spearhead our social media and Google coverage.

Brad earlier served in editing roles in the Journal’s finance and sporting activities departments and in advance of that wrote books on topics which includes professional poker gamers and place songwriter Billy Joe Shaver. A native Texan, he now lives in Berkeley with his spouse and 7-yr-outdated son.

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Esther Fung

Esther Fung is taking on protection of UPS, FedEx, freight railroads and provide chains. A Knight-Bagehot fellow this earlier calendar year, Esther formerly protected industrial real estate for the Journal for extra than a 10 years and landed memorable scoops which includes on Amazon’s moves into grocery suppliers and office merchants. Esther joined the Journal in Shanghai, where by she included the home market in China and also served protect disasters this sort of as the Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 disappearance.

Esther received the NAREE Silver Award for Greatest Professional Actual Estate Story for an short article about how major bets on topic-park like attractions backfired for malls for the duration of the pandemic. She gained a SABEW Greatest in Enterprise Award in 2018 for her posting 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 walk, she is learning 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 include venture funds and startups. Berber arrives to us from the Data, in which he rapidly founded himself as a main voice on this subject matter. His tales there broke information on the investor frenzy for dollars-burning immediate-supply startups, dug into how founders took edge of soaring valuations, and profiled large VC firms, like a story on Benchmark’s struggle to deal with industry modifications and a single on how Masayoshi Son’s goals for SoftBank’s investments ended up frustrated. Prior to the Details, Berber was at Insider.

Initially from Scarsdale, N.Y., Berber graduated from Stanford College with degrees in heritage and economics. In his totally free 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 be a part of the Engineering Bureau in San Francisco.

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Sarah Krouse

Sarah Krouse is rejoining the Journal to deal with Netflix and the struggle for supremacy in streaming video. Sarah also comes to us from the Facts, where by she has had a stellar operate covering Google and its navigation of the shifting on the internet advertisement enterprise, and tech broadly. Earlier, Sarah expended six a long time at the Journal covering investing and telecommunications. Her work involved scoops these as the news that Tim Armstrong was leaving Verizon/AOL, and unforgettable enterprise like on the money incentives guiding robocall frauds. She was a leader on our sequence on the increase of passive investing.

Sarah was named a News Media Alliance 2018 Climbing Star and was element of a team that received the New York Press Club’s 2018 Consumer Reporting Award for an investigation of Morningstar fund ratings. She started off her occupation at the Washington Business enterprise Journal. She is a Broadway buff, novice guitar participant and pet dog rescue volunteer who lives in Connecticut with her husband and hound. She will be a part of the Media & Advertising and 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 beforehand at the Economic Occasions in San Francisco, the place he delivered scoops and agenda-location characteristics covering venture funds and startups. His tales explored the frenzy for crypto investments and the afterwards collapse in the market for NFTs, broke news on the Trump-TikTok saga, and took visitors inside of the increase of Tiger World-wide Management. Prior to that, Miles reported on hedge resources for Absolute Return.

Miles acquired a bachelor’s degree in English from Rice University, in which he edited the university student newspaper, the Rice Thresher. A native of Austin, Texas, Miles is also an avid tennis player and reader of European fiction. He will be part of the Technology Bureau in San Francisco.

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Benoit Morenne

Benoit Morenne is joining the Journal to protect fracking and the all-natural-gasoline export market. Benoit comes to us from the Deseret Information in Utah, where he has been creating stories on weather change 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 repeated freelance contributor to The Foreseeable future of Almost everything sections. He previously wrote for the New York Periods in Paris, and has also penned for the Economist and Christian Science Check, amid other publications.

A indigenous of France, Benoit is a graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate Faculty of Journalism. He explored the legacy of a Louisiana race riot with a grant from the Pulitzer Middle as a J-university scholar. He will be a part of the U.S. energy group in Houston.

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In Asia

Selina Cheng

Selina Cheng has joined the Journal to protect China’s auto market place from Hong Kong. Selina was formerly a reporter for Hong Kong No cost Push, the investigative staff of regional 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 initiatives in the U.S. Capitol and Wikipedia’s sanctions towards a team of Chinese electric power consumers. She received her bachelor’s diploma at Sorbonne College in Paris and her masters at Columbia Journalism School. She likes tenting visits although they never generally change out as hoped.

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Raffaele Huang

Raffaele Huang is now covering China’s technologies organizations, primarily based in Singapore. Previously, 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 diploma in monetary journalism from Hong Kong Baptist College. Raf loves classical tunes and pictures, and is wanting ahead to checking out a new city.

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Shen Lu

Shen Lu joins the China bureau to deal with the country’s know-how sector. She has described on China given that 2015 from in and outside its borders. Prior to joining the Journal, she was a senior reporter at Protocol covering Chinese technological innovation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Coverage, Politico Magazine, and ChinaFile, amongst some others. She has received awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Society for Advancing Organization Editing and Crafting and the Society of Qualified Journalists. Shen Lu is an avid cook dinner.

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Meanwhile, we have openings. In Media & Marketing and advertising, we are hunting for a Television news and sporting activities media reporter. Make sure you make contact with Amol Sharma. In San Francisco, we are searching for a reporter to address Twitter and social media. Please call Jason Dean and Brad Reagan. In Asia, we are seeking for a reporter to cover world-wide small business in China as well a reporter to deal with organizations in Japan. Make sure you contact Yoko Kubota for China and Peter Landers for Japan.

And that’s just for now. Extra ahead.