“It is a bittersweet second for me,” O’Neill was quoted as saying within the electronic mail, which was despatched by the newspaper’s editor in chief Emma Tucker. “I’m leaving with an immense sense of pleasure for every part we completed and stay up for what’s subsequent.”
O’Neill was the third particular person to take the helm of the fashion-and-lifestyle-focused journal, which launched in 2008. It was a part of an effort by Rupert Murdoch, who not directly controls the Journal in addition to media giants equivalent to Fox Information, to compete with the New York Instances Journal, according to Girls’s Put on Day by day.
She oversaw the journal’s relaunch in 2012 and established its presence within the trend world, most just lately with the creation of WSJ’s Type Information Desk. O’Neill tapped massive names to write down columns for the journal, together with former basketball participant Dwyane Wade and Karl Lagerfeld, the late clothier whose work would be the focus of this 12 months’s Met Gala. She additionally took cost of the journal’s annual Innovator Awards, which has honored arts-and-culture luminaries since 2011.
“Kristina reworked the journal into a world aesthetics icon and her profound affect will proceed to resonate throughout the WSJ and much past,” Robert Thomson, chief govt of Journal mother or father firm Information Corp, mentioned within the electronic mail. “Her instinct, her judgment, her wit, her conscience and her creativity radiated from each web page and every single day.”
Earlier than becoming a member of the Journal in 2012, O’Neill was govt editor of Harper’s Bazaar and labored at New York Journal and Time Out New York.
Solely a handful of U.S. magazines hooked up to each day newspapers are nonetheless in circulation, together with inserts on the Boston Globe and the New York Instances, although these publications run weekly and are extra general-interest than the Journal’s model.
The Washington Submit shuttered its journal and laid off the part’s 10 workers late final 12 months. Trend outlet Paper Journal laid off its whole workers Wednesday because of financial head winds.
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