Liz Heron Leaves ‘WSJ’ For Facebook Post

Facebook turned to The Wall Street Journal to fill a position based on further intertwining the social network with news, as Editor of Emerging Media Liz Heron announced -- appropriately, in a Facebook post -- that she is leaving the Journal to join Facebook.

LizHeron650Facebook turned to The Wall Street Journal to fill a position based on further intertwining the social network with news, as Editor of Emerging Media Liz Heron announced — appropriately, in a Facebook post — that she is leaving the Journal to join Facebook.

Heron is far from a journalism greenhorn, having worked with The Washington Post and The New York Times prior to the Journal.

She wrote in her Facebook post:

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m taking a new job at Facebook centered on the news.

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