Assistant editor of the Wall Street Journal. Paul Beckett leaves the publishing house after 34 years.
Most recently, he oversaw the newspaper’s efforts to free a reporter Evan Gerszkowicz from a Russian prison.
Prior to this role, Paul was Washington bureau chief, answerable for news covering politics and government, economics, national security, the Supreme Court, financial regulation and the intersection of business and Washington.
Before taking up the office in 2017, Beckett was the Asia editor answerable for the magazine’s print and digital editorial teams across the region.
In 2013, after six years as a South Asia editor, he moved to Hong Kong, based in New Delhi, where he founded the WSJ India Real Time blog and India news site india.wsj.com.
In 2008, Beckett and the bureau won the Overseas Press Club award for its coverage of India. In July 2013, he co-authored the HarperCollins book “Crimes Against Women: Three Tragedies and a Call for Reform in India,” a compilation of WSJ reports on women’s issues in 2012 and 2013.
Born and raised in Scotland and a graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he joined Dow Jones in 1990 on the Daily News in Newburyport, Massachusetts, then a part of the Dow Jones local newspaper chain.
He joined Dow Jones Newswires in 1993 and reported from New York, London, Mexico City and Washington. He joined the Journal in 1998 in New York, where he covered banking. In 2003, he moved to London as office director and editor for finance and European markets.
