SPOT LIGHT SHINING ON WALL STREET JOURNAL Editor and Columnist

SPOT LIGHT SHINING ON WALL STREET JOURNAL Editor and Columnist

 JOHN SEELEY

Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York

John Seeley is the editor of Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. Mr. Seeley joined the paper in December 2009, prior to the section’s launch in April 2010.

Previously, Mr. Seeley was deputy managing editor of the now defunct New York Sun, where he worked in various positions from 2002 to 2008. Prior to that, he served as a freelance editor at BusinessWeek and as staff editor Advertising Age International. From 1997 to 1998 he was an editor at Intelnews in Kiev, Ukraine where he produced a business daily covering the volatile business and political situation in Ukraine. He began his journalism career in Washington, D.C. as a copy editor at Roll Call Newspaper from 1988 to 1991. He then moved on to States News Service where he was a deputy editor from 1991 to 1993.
Mr. Seeley was born in Cheverly, Maryland and attended SUNY Binghamton and the University of Maryland. Mr. Seeley lives in Queens with his wife and son.

S. MITRA KALITA

Senior Deputy Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Mitra Kalita is the senior deputy editor of Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. She reports to John Seeley, the section editor.

Ms. Kalita previously served as the deputy global economics editor at the Journal. She also anchored a weekly column for the Journal called New Global India.

Ms. Kalita was a founding editor and columnist at Mint, a business newspaper in New Delhi. She has reported for the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press on subjects including 9/11, New York City’s economy, outsourcing and the global financial crisis.

She has won several awards for her work and was included in the “Best Business Stories of 2003” and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, most recently for coverage of the great recession.

She is the author of the award-winning “Suburban Sahibs: Three immigrant families and their passage from India to America.” Her book on the Indian economy will be releases this year by Harper Collins India.

Ms. Kalita was born in Brooklyn, raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico and New Jersey. She currently resided in Jackson Heights, Queens.

WADE LAMBERT

Deputy Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Wade Lambert is a deputy editor for Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. Prior to his current post, Mr. Lambert was a front page editor from 2007 through April 2010.

Mr. Lambert joined the Journal in the New York bureau as a copyreader in 1984 and was named copy editor for the front page of the paper's second section in 1986. He became a law reporter in July 1989 and was named assistant bureau manager, New York law in April 1995. He moved to the paper's spot news desk as deputy editor in May 1996. He then moved to the Weekend Journal in September 1998 as news editor. In 2000 he was named deputy bureau chief in London for the combined Wall Street Journal/Wall Street Journal Europe.

In 1993 Mr. Lambert and Journal law editor, Steve Adler, received an award of merit in the John Peter Zenger Media Awards Competition for their article, "Common Criminals." The article looked at common crimes that even the most law-abiding citizens routinely commit.

Mr. Lambert began his journalism career as a reporter for the Fulton (Mo.) Sun-Gazette in 1979-1980.

Born in Lubbock, Texas, Mr. Lambert earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia, graduating first in the journalism school. While at the university, he was a reporting intern at the Killeen (Texas) Daily Herald, a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund editing intern at the Boston Globe and a recipient of the Donald J. Reynolds Award, a scholarship for journalism achievement. He was also a teaching assistant at the university and served as president of the Journalism Student Association.
Mr. Lambert lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

MATTHEW OSHINSKY

News Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Matthew Oshinsky is a news editor for the Greater New York section of the Wall Street Journal.

He joined the paper in February 2010, and oversees the section’s cultural coverage.
Before arriving at the Journal, Mr. Oshinsky spent a year editing and writing for the Arts & Entertainment section at the Newark Star-Ledger. Prior to that, he served in a number of roles for the New York Sun, including Sports Editor from 2004 to 2006 and Popular Culture Editor from 2006 to 2008. As a writer, Mr. Oshinsky has contributed to books published by Harvard University Press and Universe Publishing, and has written for such periodicals as the Daily Beast, the Forward, and the Village Voice.

Mr. Oshinsky was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and raised in Highland Park, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Literature from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000 and a Master’s degree from New York University in Journalism in 2003. He lives in Brooklyn.

JAMES A. WHITE

News Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Jim White is a news editor with the Greater New York section of The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to being named to his current position in April 2010, Mr. Whitewas anews editorin the Journal's Health and Science group in New York, where his duties included supervising and writing for the WSJ's Health Blog.Previously he worked as a news editor on the Journal's NewsDesk, a slot editor on the JournalCopy Desk, deputy editor of the Journal’s Media & Marketing groupand as a news editor in the Money & Investing group, where he oversaw mutual-fund coverage andthe Journal's monthly reports onfund investing.

He joined the Journal in August 1981 as a special writer in the New York bureau and became a copy editor on the Spot News Desk in 1983. He transferred to Brussels as a news editor for The Wall Street Journal Europe in March 1985 and was named the European Journal's deputy managing editor in August 1986. He returned to New York in July 1988 as a senior special writer with the Money & Investinggroup and covered institutional investing for the domestic Journal.

In July 1992, Mr. White was appointed to a multi-departmental project team formed to develop a newJournal reporting and editing system. He returned to the New York news bureau in September 1994 as a news editor on the National Desk. In April 1998, he was named deputy managing editor for television news, working with CNBC and responsible for placing Dow Jones news content on the cable network. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC in the U.S.

Mr. White began his journalism career in 1972 as a reporter for the Albany, N.Y., Knickerbocker News. He became a reporter for United Press International in New York in February 1976 and moved to the New York Daily News as a reporter/editor in 1980.

Born in El Paso, Texas, Mr. White graduated from Seton Hall University in New Jersey with a bachelor's degree in English. He received a master's degree in communications from American University in Washington, D.C., and a certificate in business and economic journalism as a Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University. In 1994, he was certified as a chartered financial analyst.

Mr. White and his wife, Mary Dougal, have a son, Matthew.

MONICA WILLIAMS
News Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Monica Williams is a news editor for Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area.
Ms. Williams has been with the Journal since 2006. Previously, she was an assistant metro and education editor for the Cincinnati Enquirer from 2004 to 2006. From 1999 to 2004, she worked as a staff editor in news and on the Sunday magazine at The Boston Globe.
She has also worked as a reporter and copy editor at The Detroit New and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

AARON RUTKOFF

Assistant News Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Aaron Rutkoff is an assistant news editor for The Wall Street Journal’s Greater New York section. Mr. Rutkoff is a lead contributor to the Metropolis blog and an editor of WSJ.com’s New York section. He joined the paper in 2005.

Previously, Mr. Rutkoff edited WSJ.com's homepage, covered political advertising during the 2008 presidential election and wrote a column aboutInternet culture. Before joining The Journal, he was a reporter and editor for the Queens Tribune.

Mr. Rutkoff was born in Highland Park, Illinois and attended Wesleyan University. He lives in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood with his wife.

NIKKI WALLER

Web Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Nikki Waller is the news editor overseeing Web coverage for Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. She reports to John Seeley, the section editor.

Previously, Ms. Waller was an editor for Wall Street Journal Online, where she has covered travel, breaking news, personal finance, and the human toll of the financial crisis.

Her multimedia projects for WSJ.com include The End of Wall Street, the Journal’s first long-form video documentary project, and the Journal’s mapped travel guides, with destinations and venues picked by local Wall Street Journal bureau staff. She has launched long- and short-term blogs, including the Middle Seat Terminal, which tracks and unpacks the world of air travel, and On the Road in India, which sent a reporter on a two-week auto-rickshaw rally across India.

Before joining the Journal in January 2008, she was a reporter and editor at the Miami Herald, where she covered local government, criminal courts, and special projects, plus created and launched Miami.com, a Herald site about what to do and see in Miami.

Ms. Waller has an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, and a B.A. from Northwestern University, where she majored in fiction writing and gender studies.

BILL EICHENBERGER

New York Sports Editor
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Bill Eichenberger is the New York sports editor for Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. He supervises, plans, and edits the six-reporter team covering sports in New York City.

Before joining the Journal in March 2010, Mr. Eichenberger was a staff writer for Sporting News from 2008 to 2010. Before that he was variously, sports editor, deputy sports editor and ultimately executive sports editor for Newsday during his tenure there from 1998 to 2007. He’s also covered and edited sports coverage at the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Akron Beacon Journal and the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Mr. Eichenberger is a winner of multiple awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors and was president of the APSE from 2003 to 2004.
Mr. Eichenberger lives on Long Island with his wife Margaret and has two daughters.

RALPH GARDNER JR.

Senior Special Writer
The Wall Street Journal
New York

Ralph Gardner Jr. is a senior special writer and columnist for Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. His column runs Monday through Friday. He reports on the City and matters ranging from MetroCard swiping techniques to neighborhood tree-plantings.

Mr. Gardner was a writer for the New York Observer from 1992 to 2007 and wrote its “Crime Blotter” column. He was also a frequent contributor at New York Magazine from 1998 to 2006. He has also written for The New York Times, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, Spy, Penthouse Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and The New Yorker.

Mr. Gardner is the co-author of “Hay Fever” with Angela Miller published by Wiley in April 2010.
He graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont and lives in Manhattan with his wife and two daughters.

JASON GAY

Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
New York



Jason Gay is a sports columnist for The Wall Street Journal and the Journal’s Greater New York section. Before joining the Journal in 2009, he was a writer and editor at publications including GQ, Rolling Stone and The New York Observer.

He lives in Brooklyn.

MARSHALL HEYMAN

Columnist
The Wall Street Journal
New York
Marshall Heyman is columnist for Greater New York, the section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. He writes the “Heard and Scene” column covering society, events, nightlife and the goings on of the various boldface names in Manhattan.

Previously, Mr. Heyman was a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist. After graduating from Princeton University, he began his career at The New Yorker and then went on to edit the Eye Page at Women’s Wear Daily. He was a senior editor W Magazine before moving to Los Angeles to get his Masters in Cinema Studies from UCLA.
He has written for the New Yorker, The New York Times Sunday Styles, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Vogue, Teen Vogue, W, Details, Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Slate, the New York Observer, In Style and Harper’s Bazaar.

Mr. Heyman lives in Manhattan.

ROSS SCHNEIDERMAN
Reporter
The Wall Street Journal
New York

Ross Schneiderman is the lead writer for The Wall Street Journal’s Metropolis blog. He also writes for Greater New York, the section of the Journal devoted to the New York area.

Before joining the journal in March 2010, Mr. Schneiderman worked as a producer for The New York Times from 2007 to 2009. From 2006 to 2007, he served as a reporter for Forbes.com. Between 2005 and 2006, Mr. Schneiderman was a reporter and researcher for Newsweek, as well as for ESPN The Magazine.

In 2009, Mr. Schneiderman was part of a team that won a Best in Journalism Award from the American Society of Business Editors and Writers for his work on Economix, a New York Times blog. He is also the recipient of a 2006 Headliner Award as part of an ESPN The Magazine team that investigated the history of steroids in baseball.

Mr. Schneiderman received his M.S. in magazine journalism from The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in 2005. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston University with a B.A. in history and comparative social policy in 2004.
He resides in Manhattan.