WSJ's Liz Heron Jumps to Facebook

Liz Heron, The Wall Street Journal's emerging media editor, is joining Facebook as the social network emphasizes news and mobile.

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The Wall Street Journal lost its emerging media editor today. Liz Heron, who oversaw multimedia and social efforts at the newspaper, announced in a Facebook post that she will be joining the social network. Heron will be working on “how Facebook partners with journalists and media organizations, at a time when Facebook is putting a big emphasis on news and mobile,” she said in the announcement. “It will be fascinating for me to approach news-gathering and storytelling from a new vantage point.”

Heron has worked on social and mobile strategy for The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

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