2 top editors leave Wall Street Journal
Two of The Wall Street Journal’s top editors will leave the publication, the new editor-in-chief, Emma Tucker, said Thursday.
In an email to staff, Ms. Tucker said Neal Lipschutz and Jason Anders, both deputy editors-in-chief, would be leaving “after many years of distinguished service”.
“A new deputy editor will be announced in due course,” Ms. Tucker wrote.
Mr. Lipschutz, who spent 41 years at Dow Jones and The Journal, said in an email to colleagues on Thursday that “it’s time for me to move on to new things.” He was previously a top editor for the Dow Jones newswires and served as deputy editor-in-chief since 2019.
Mr. Anders has been with The Journal for more than 25 years and was one of the organization’s first digital reporters. In 2022, he was promoted to deputy editor-in-chief. On Thursday, he wrote in an email to colleagues that he was home with Covid, but “I look forward to saying goodbye in person in the coming weeks.”
Their departure is the latest in a string of changes since Ms Tucker took over as editor in February.
Days after she started, Ms. Tucker let Karen Pensiero, the editor-in-chief, go. She was replaced by Liz Harris, an editor who previously worked with Ms Tucker at The Sunday Times in London.
Last week, Ms. Tucker announced that the news organization would no longer use honorable mentions, the courtesy titles such as Mr. and Mrs.
“The flow of Mr., Mrs., MX. or Ms. in sentences may delay readers’ enjoyment of our writing,” she wrote.
Ms. Tucker also ended the use of corporate designations, such as Inc. of Corp., in news articles.
Ms. Tucker is the first woman to lead the newsroom of The Journal. She has worked for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp since 2007 and became editor of The Sunday Times, a sister newspaper of The Times of London, in 2020.
Just weeks after she took over at The Journal, Russia arrested Evan Gershkovich, one of the organization’s foreign correspondents, and charged him with espionage. Ms Tucker has vehemently denied the allegation and pushed for his release, as has the US government.