It's not been announced. But it's a big promotion for the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau chief who rose through the ranks at the financial newspaper by covering the entertainment biz.
Sometime after the first of the year Bruce Orwall will replace Emily Nelson, who it was already announced is rotating back to WSJ headquarters. Rupert Murdoch places a tremendous amount of emphasis on London. "These new owners are very globally oriented and London is a hugely important financial center," an insider told me.
Bruce Orwall Becoming WSJ London Chief
By Nikki Finke | Category: Foreign | Tuesday October 21, 2008 @ 5:38pm
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Bruce is a good guy and good editor. Great gig for him. Hopefully they’ll find someone good to fill his shoes.
Congratulations, Bruce!
Murdoch has just spent hundreds of millions of pounds on new printing presses for his UK operation and – thanks to the time difference – copies of both the US and European editions of the WSJ are now on sale in London before the former is on sale in New York.
This shows an unusual degree of confidence in the future of both the print media and London as the world’s leading fianncial center (although News Corp heir apparent James runs the massive BSkyB satellite empire in London alongside the newspaper business)
The public spin surrounding the cessation of publishing the WSJ-NY Edition in Central London as of 17 Nov 2009 is disappointing. Said to be expensive (but not unprofitable) by News Corp. Shame the loss of diverse perspective offered in London’s skewed market. Patience W’s WSJE offering may have some way to go to get back to proper six column Wall Street credibility. Not interested in more European focus, true global and full range really showed well in contrast to alternatives at Newsagents. The five hours earlier than NY line wasn’t what made the proposition of a world class external version attractive, but was ‘nice’. The few thousand subs may be limited but were not light weight. Will be watching this next play with interest…wishing I could hear about it direct from the primary source voice of DJ, secondary source repackaging and presentation will worry some the flagship banner is beld as an asset. We are aware that the content costs play is now developing momentum…funny I was already to pay well above market for the Real Thing…why the compulsion to repeatedly play with a working format? The WSJ Online proposition is faint substitute as the publication is what commanded respect not something I could retrieve from a printer in isolation. Really Too Bad
Count Basie would be so proud of you..
Me too….
Good for you Kid!
I wish you nothing but the best and you
know that. You deserve everything and more.
My husband says meet him on Thackeray and 45th
Thanksgiving Eve!
Loveya,
Hillary Tattinger
Bruce,
Congrats from the entire Lippert family. You deserve it.
Theresa L.
Congratulations Bruce!!
Wow — living in London and the WSJ London Chief.
That’s so cool,
Diane Claussen