Wall Street Journal Online appoints new managing editor
By Erina Lin, Thursday 23 August 2007 at 22:41 :: Labor & Employment :: #459 :: rss
The Wall Street Journal Online has named Almar Latour its new managing editor, effective Sept. 4. Latour will replace Bill Grueskin, who was recently appointed deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Latour, 36, was previously the bureau chief for the technology group based in New York, in charge of the Journal's print and online edition integration.
He joined the company as an intern for The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels in 1995, later becoming a news assistant in the paper's Washington Bureau. In 1996, he began covering economic and political news in Eastern Europe for the Journal. Two years later, he became the correspondent in Stockholm, and then moved to the London Bureau in 2001, responsible for European telecom and technology news, according to Prime Newswire.
Latour came to the New York technology group in 2003 as a reporter covering U.S. phone companies. He became deputy bureau chief in 2005, and was named bureau chief within the same year. He was the winner of World Leadership Forum business journalism award for Best Story on Business Leadership for covering corporate culture at the oil company Shell.
Latour, a Netherlands native, got his master's degree from American University in Washington, D.C. and a bachelor's from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
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