WSJ names new chief digital editors, audience growth and engagement heads

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We are delighted to announce several moves in the Hub around how we handle our electronic day, deepen engagement with our viewers and generate advancement.

Darren Everson is named Chief Electronic Editor of The Wall Road Journal, liable for our electronic report and making certain we are urgent, energetic and viewers-focused every single working day. Darren will provide his considerable skills to bear to oversee our publishing and modifying, system and programming teams, and will function closely with protection leaders to make sure our readers are effectively served with the news and facts they will need, sent when and how they need to have it. He will lead the talented senior workforce that consists of Programming Editor Sheila Courter, Publishing Main Alexandra Kaptik and Platforms Main Cynthia Lin, collectively billed with gatekeeping the top quality and sharpening the resonance of what we place forward to our viewers each working day.

Darren is currently nicely identified as a newsroom chief whose extraordinary information judgment and eager digital insights support condition our day from the center of the space. Darren has been Deputy Main Information Editor for the past three several years, and was previously a leader on digital platforms. Ahead of that, Darren was editor of World wide Journal, major the group that created the Asia and Europe print editions of The Journal, and was also 1 of the unique customers of the Journal’s sports division, exactly where he later on grew to become deputy. He joined the Journal in 2006 as a reporter covering the company of journey. Darren is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and he and his spouse, WSJ sports reporter Rachel Bachman, reside in Brooklyn.

Gráinne McCarthy is named Chief Electronic Editor, Intercontinental and, like Darren, will have broad obligation for our every day digital report. Gráinne will stay centered in London, wherever the London Hub group will report to her. She will emphasis on our attempts in EMEA and APAC and, critically, on environment up the U.S. electronic working day. Gráinne enters this expanded role as a dynamic and longtime newsroom leader who has been at the centre of some of our most significant coverage. She has been instrumental in our efforts to invigorate our strategy to breaking information and has championed new means of connecting with our viewers, all while upholding the maximum Journal requirements.

Gráinne has been Deputy Main Information Editor for the earlier 5 decades, and right before that was our senior information editor for EMEA. Gráinne earlier served as Paris Bureau Chief for 5 many years, and has held other top rated employment with WSJ.com and Dow Jones Newswires. She is a graduate of Dublin City University and the University of Limerick, and was a Knight-Bagehot fellow at Columbia College in 2001. She joined Dow Jones in 1998. Gráinne life in London with her spouse and two sons.

Darren and Gráinne will go on to report to Jason.

Phil Izzo is named Head of Viewers Engagement, and will lead our broad initiatives throughout the newsroom to keep track of and reinforce our connection with our audience and to extend the attain of our journalism. It is extra significant than at any time that we make confident every thing we do serves our growing viewers, and no a single is superior outfitted to marshal our get the job done on this front. Phil has been a key architect of the modern day digital Journal, and his lots of skills span coverage, platforms and product. He will carry on to oversee our Viewers Info workforce led by Tess Jeffers and Web optimization team led by Ed Hyatt, and collaborate with leaders throughout the newsroom.

Phil has been Deputy Chief News Editor for the earlier 5 yrs, demonstrating excellent depth and judgment as he directed the motion from the heart of the Hub. His digital practical experience operates deep: He was the inaugural editor of our Real-Time Economics weblog, ran our progressive What is News app, was Cellular Editor and led the reimagining of our mobile application, among the other senior positions. He joined the Journal in 1999 as a information assistant for the overseas duplicate desk. Phil is a graduate of Fordham College. He life in Brooklyn with his spouse and daughter.

Jennifer Hicks is named Head of Viewers Advancement. Jenn will guide our attempts to develop our do the job to new visitors, viewers and listeners, specifically as we embrace different platforms and formats. Jenn is an innovator of the first purchase, and has been instrumental in initiatives as broad-ranging as our partnership with Apple News and the tappable tales that our viewers just can’t get sufficient of. She will continue on to be the newsroom direct on our successful editorial partnerships and off-system endeavours, which now consist of Google, TikTok, Snap and others, while operating throughout the newsroom on endeavors aimed at exposing our fantastic journalism to an at any time-broader viewers. The social and visible-storytelling groups beneath Patrick Hedlund will continue on to report to her.

Jenn has been a digital leader at the Journal for quite a few years. She has most not long ago been Deputy Chief News Editor, assisting to immediate our protection and platforms. Beforehand she led the Journal’s solution crew, and held a collection of senior enhancing posts in our New York and London newsrooms. Jenn joined the Journal in 2004 as an interactive information assistant. She is a graduate of the College of Oklahoma and Columbia College. She and her husband dwell in Brooklyn.

Phil and Jenn will go on to continue to keep a hand in news, where by they have been so helpful.  They will report to Jason, and will function carefully with Newsroom Head of Solution Lydia Serota and others throughout the Journal to generate our electronic results.

Be sure to be a part of us in congratulating Darren, Gráinne, Phil and Jenn on their new roles.