Stephen Wisnefski

Assistant Managing Editor, Talent

Stephen oversees hiring and career development across the WSJ newsroom. Before taking on the role last August, Stephen served for five years as editor for professional news, managing the groups that produce WSJ Pro and Dow Jones Newswires. Prior to that he ran the WSJ's real-time news desk. Stephen joined the company in 1997 as a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in São Paulo, Brazil. Among other Newswires positions, he served as Latin American editor, energy and commodities editor, Chicago/Detroit bureah chief and senior editor for the Americas. Stephen, who was born in Chile, is co-lead of MiGente@DJ, the Dow Jones community of Latino/Hispanic employees. He was raised in Wisconsin and graduated from Northwestern University, and now lives in Cranford, N.J., with his wife and two teenage sons. In his spare time, Stephen runs long distances, plays piano and cheers on Wisconsin sports teams.