Wall Street Journal Poaches Lex Columnists

By John Carney

Thorold Barker and Liam Denning write the all important Lex column for the Financial Times. Or they did. Today the news broke that Barker and Denning have been hired by the Wall Street Journal and will apparently be writing the “Heard on The Street” column.

Wall Street Journal hires Financial Times journalists [Guardian]

Comments (3)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | June 6, 2008 at 1:52 PM

    The FT will still and always be a better paper than the WSJ, especially for the globalization savy financier. Although these hires are a step in the right directons, the WSJ is on the fast track to soon become another NYT or worse.

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | June 6, 2008 at 2:03 PM

    I bet I can write the Lex column. Where does one apply?

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | June 6, 2008 at 2:59 PM

    2:03 was Bess.

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