Brent Jones

Brent Jones, Editor of Culture, Training and Outreach at The Wall Street Journal, works closely with colleagues across Dow Jones on staff training, diversity, inclusion and Dow Jones culture. He joined the Journal in February 2018 as Assistant Managing Editor for Training & Outreach, identifying strategic pillars of learning; anchoring weekly training sessions; helping to coordinate and elevate the newsroom’s presence at online news, investigative and diversity journalism conferences, and initiated and launched in February 2019 The Wall Street Journal – Morgan State University Business Journalism Exchange Program, a groundbreaking training collaboration with Morgan State University. He also launched a second newsroom outreach training initiative, WSJ & Lehman Journo-Tech Program, at CUNY’s Lehman College (Bronx, N.Y.) in February 2020. Before the Journal, Jones was head of standards and ethics for USA Today, a role that eventually expanded to support more than 100 local newsrooms across Gannett. As standards editor for USA Today, he created, produced and hosted the publication’s first media ethics podcast, Off the Record, a monthly program that focused on ethical considerations related to news coverage. His design and management of USA Today’s year-round internship program served as a template for Gannett’s enterprise student programming strategy for its business units and local newsrooms. He also has held a number of editing roles at USA Today and local papers. Jones serves on the advisory boards of the Freedom Forum Institute’s Power Shift Project and the Center for Journalism Ethics for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also has advised The Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and Online News Association as part of special outside-committee projects looking at the strategic direction and future of those organizations.