'WSJ' Editor Steiger Announces Staff Changes in Memo

By: Joe Strupp Paul Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, announced a slew of staff changes in a memo to employees late Monday.

The changes result from the retirement of Deputy Managing Editor Barney Calame's retirement and the departure of Deputy Managing Editor Steve Adler to become editor in chief of BusinessWeek, Steiger said.

Among the changes:

Dan Hertzberg will assume Calame's role as second-in-command, overseeing Page One, the Global News Desk, all the U.S. news bureaus, and all the page editors for the three five-day-a-week sections of the U.S. edition.

Alix Freedman will become an assistant managing editor, overseeing the final reading of Page One and "other high-profile stories, assure that complaints about our work are met with prompt and thorough responses, and make sure we correct what we do wrong and uphold what we do right."

Joanne Lipman will assume responsibilities for launching the planned Weekend Edition, which will occur on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2005. She also will continue to oversee Personal Journal and Weekend Journal.

Jim Pensiero will take on responsibility for Journal books, the business-school rankings, and related activities that were part of Adler's work. Pensiero will continue to oversee the global copy desk, the pagination and prepress operation, and the market-data team.

Ken Wells and Roe D'Angelo, who have been working with Adler on the books and business-school operations, will assume broader responsibilities as director of Wall Street Journal books and director of Wall Street Journal lists, respectively.

Bill Grueskin, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Online, will now report to Steiger for news matters. Grueskin had been reporting through Adler for such issues.