The Wall Street Journal named a new top editor on Monday, saying it would hand control of the newsroom to Emma Tucker, a longtime editor in Britain. She replaces Matthew J. Murray, who has led the paper for the past four years, occasionally clashing with the paper’s publisher.
The Journal said Mr. Murray would take on a new role, reporting to Robert Thomson, the chief executive of News Corp, The Journal’s parent company. She starts on Feb. 1, with Mr. Murray assisting with the transition through the beginning of March.
“Matt is a superb journalist and leader who has overseen a peerless editorial team that fashioned success for The Journal during an era of extreme vulnerability for media companies and journalism,” Mr. Thomson said in a statement.
Ms. Tucker, 56, has been the editor of The Sunday Times in London, another publication run by Rupert Murdoch, the media titan who owns The Journal.