Jun 27, 2024 - Business

Scoop: WSJ's longtime deals editor to depart for Centerview

Eleanor Hawkins

Illustration of a collage of newspaper clippings with exit sign lettering cut from the center. — Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios

The Wall Street Journal's veteran deals editor, Dana Cimilluca, is leaving the paper for a communications role at banking boutique Centerview Partners, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: The reporting field that covers M&A, IPOs, activist shareholders, and related areas is losing a respected and highly experienced journalist to the comms side.

Catch up quick: Cimilluca joined The Wall Street Journal in 2007 from Bloomberg, starting at the paper's newly launched M&A blog at the time, Deal Journal.

He became the paper's London-based European M&A reporter in 2008, returning to New York as deputy deals editor five years later.
Cimilluca has run the Journal's deals team since 2015, overseeing the paper's coverage of corporate takeovers, public listings, proxy fights, and a range of other financial stories.
He was named the WSJ's Wall Street bureau chief in 2023 and continued to oversee deals coverage.

The big picture: Cimilluca is leaving journalism as U.S. media companies grapple with restructurings, layoffs and newsrooms overhauls.

His departure also comes as the Journal's newsroom shifts towards a new "reader-first strategy" that seeks to attract a broader business audience.
Centerview and Cimilluca declined Axios' request for comment. Dow Jones did not immediately return a request seeking comment.

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