Ms. Chon, who was hired by The Journal in 2005, has been working for the paper's Money and Investing section since 2010.
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Dave Kansas, a senior editor at The Wall Street Journal Online, will temporarily take over Mr. Ingrassia's responsibilities on the Money & Investing section.
Lawrence Ingrassia, the editor of The Journal's Money and Investing section, got on a ferry, he recalled, as "people were jumping off the towers".
To test the market for an electronic version of the paper, The Journal began publishing its Money and Investing section on the Web in July.
Before coming to Bloomberg, Wiegold worked for 18 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a founding editor of the Money & Investing section and a contributing editor of Smart Money magazine.
At fool.com, the Web site of The Motley Fool, traffic to both its news-and-investing section and its personal finance area, which includes a financial must-do list, has surged more than 50percentt since September.
The paper has launched a new London column on Monday and Friday entitled Letter From the City, which appears in the international finance pages of the Money & Investing section.
He added, "Why allow another financial journal or video programmer a seat at the table with your audience?" To lead the editorial exploration of a Saturday paper, Dow Jones tapped Lawrence Ingrassia, the editor of The Journal's Money & Investing section, over the Christmas holidays, the executives briefed on the undertaking said.
