NEW YORK, Jan. 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Tunku Varadarajan was recently named an assistant managing editor of The Wall Street Journal's news department, effective mid-February.
In this role, Mr. Varadarajan's responsibilities will include working closely with the Journal's managing editor and other deputy editors to expand the range of feature coverage throughout the Journal.
"I'm making this move at a time when our features and news are riding high, from the centerpiece on Saturdays back through all the section fronts six days a week," said Paul E. Steiger, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. "Having a fresh eye of someone with Tunku's record of success -- most recently in broadening out and invigorating the edit page's op-ed features -- will help us keep ahead of the competition at a time when other publications, both new and old, are seeking to steal our approach."
Mr. Varadarajan joined the Journal in New York in 2000 as a senior editorial page writer. Later that year he became deputy editorial features editor and a columnist for OpinionJournal.com. In 2002 he became chief television and media critic, and was named editorial features editor, his current position, later that same year.
Prior to joining the Journal, Mr. Varadarajan held several positions at the Times of London, first as an editorial writer in London and then as bureau chief in Madrid and New York. Mr. Varadarajan was a freelance writer from 1998 to 2000, regularly contributing to the Journal's Leisure & Arts and edit features columns.
Mr. Varadarajan holds a law a degree from Oxford University and from 1988 until 1993 was the Levine Memorial in law at Trinity College, Oxford University, teaching constitutional, administrative, Roman and public international law.
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