April 11, 2008
Elyse Tanouye, senior editor at The Wall Street Journal, will become corporate news editor, overseeing companies coverage and ensuring that the paper will remain the gold standard of business journalism. Elyse has been at the Journal since 1991, starting in Money & Investing and then moving to the health group where she was a reporter and a contributor to the Journal's Pulitzer-winning coverage of the AIDS crisis. She became chief of the Health and Science bureau in 2001 and since then has overseen competitive coverage of the huge shifts in the pharmaceutical and health-insurance industries. She also spearheaded the Health Blog and has been involved in several other joint print/online ventures. Elyse has a bachelor's degree from Reed College and an MBA from Columbia University and is a graduate of the 2006 ELP session in Scottsdale, Arizona.