Emma Tucker has been named editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal in a Murdoch editorial shakeup

• Tucker will join The Wall Street Journal from The Sunday Times, another Murdoch-operated newspaper.
• Journal editor Matt Murray is staying on at a senior role within News Corp, the company said.

The Wall Street Journal has appointed a new top editor, confirming weeks of speculation within the News Corp empire about a forthcoming editorial shakeup.

Emma Tucker, previously the editor of The Sunday Times, will replace Editor-in-Chief Matt Murray, a Journal veteran who has served atop the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper since 2018.

"Emma is a brilliant, inspiring editor, with digital nous and the highest standards of integrity," News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said in a statement. "Her global vision and experience will be particularly important at a time of immense international opportunity for The Wall Street Journal. Emma has a deep background in business reporting and a thoroughly deserved reputation for the pursuit of principle, and she will never knowingly be beaten to a scoop."

As Insider reported, Murray is a well-liked figure in the newsroom but his tenure has been marked with staff tensions and, as The New York Times previously reported, clashes with the paper's publisher. The installation of Tucker will bring a Brit back to a leadership position at The Journal, the crown jewel in Murdoch's publishing empire.

The company said Tucker will assume her new position on February 1, 2023.

Sources inside News Corp have speculated that the potential change reestablishes a Murdoch lieutenant at the helm ahead of his desired recombination of News Corp and Fox, his two companies which separated in 2013.