WSJ to open style news desk

Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray and senior editor for features Mike Miller despatched out the next on Monday:

Dear All,

From its start 14 many years back, WSJ. Magazine has performed a effective purpose in expanding the Wall Street Journal’s audience and authority. With substantial aesthetic requirements, a eager radar for traits, and an expansive canvas for very long-type journalism and luxurious images, the magazine has finished one thing that seemed improbable at its founding: created the Journal an crucial power in the worlds of style and design and style. As those people domains significantly intersect with the worlds of enterprise, funds and culture, that crossover has come to be a significant story for the whole Wall Street Journal, and our journal, under editor Kristina O’Neill, has been top the way.

These days we’re saying a program to expand the magazine’s coverage with a new workforce concentrating on electronic protection of the environment of style, fashion and culture–defining individuals domains broadly. Our new Style Information desk will mix deep reporting, wit, and an eye for unpredicted tendencies to produce location tales, analysis and options, presented to viewers on our digital platforms less than the flag of WSJ. Magazine. Regardless of whether it’s Jeff Bezos’s disco-themed New Year’s Eve ensemble or the “book stylists” of The White Lotus, our purpose will be the two to edify and entertain our current audience and attract in new kinds.

We’re assigning some of the WSJ’s top expertise to the desk, and submitting 6 new positions (three reporters, two editors and a image editor). Leading the desk will be Sarah Ball, who joined us in 2018 as the magazine’s digital editor and has develop into one particular of the newsroom’s most achieved and strategic electronic leaders. Sarah came to us from Condé Nast, wherever she worked as an editor at Vanity Honest and GQ for eight several years. She will continue on to report to Kristina.

Also joining the desk are our star manner columnists Rory Satran and Jacob Gallagher, whose deeply noted and in advance-of-the-curve dispatches have come to be popular and effective WSJ franchises and our stellar workforce of arts reporters, led by their editor Yael Kohen.

The Design Information desk will start taking shape in April and offering tales later this yr.

– Matt and Mike