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Richard Turner, who reported and edited in Los Angeles for the Wall Street Journal, Herald-Examiner and TV Guide, is moving up at the Journal. He's been named the editor of the Media & Marketing pod of reporters. (Disclosure: We worked together at the Industry Standard.)
The memo from WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger follows.
To the staff,I'm pleased to announce that Rich Turner is becoming Media & Marketing editor in New York, succeeding Nik Deogun. The move is effective March 15, when Nik moves to the Washington bureau. Rich will report to Deputy Managing Editor Dan Hertzberg.
Rich began his journalism career in 1976 in Minneapolis where he helped found an alternative weekly, Metropolis. In 1978, he became senior editor of Sport magazine in New York. Two years later, he became a staff writer at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and later became assistant city editor there. In 1983, he became a national writer for TV Guide and in 1986 was promoted to West Coast bureau chief for the magazine.
Rich first joined the Journal in 1989 as a staff reporter in the Los Angeles bureau covering the entertainment business in Los Angeles. After almost six years there, he moved to New York as editor-at-large for New York magazine, writing the media column and feature stories and also editing other writers. In 1996, he became a senior editor at Newsweek, where he wrote about media and later ran the Society section. In 2000, he served as executive editor and New York bureau chief of the Industry Standard, an Internet publication. He rejoined the Journal in 2001 as Media & Marketing deputy.
A native of Rochester, N.Y., Rich holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard and did graduate work in cinema studies at New York University.
Please join me in wishing Rich all the best in his new role.
Best regards,
Paul Steiger