Calab Solomon was promoted to managing editor with in a year of being a Sulzberger Fellow. During the Punch Sulzberger Program he was an assistant managing editor at The Boston Globe, a position he held since February of 2003. He is responsible for the paper’s business and economics coverage, including the daily Business section. He also oversees the Globe’s Real Estate, Autos, and BostonWorks sections.

Solomon spent nearly two years in Brussels for The Wall Street Journal Europe, first as the networking editor overseeing a section devoted to technology, media, marketing and management. He was named page one editor and assistant managing editor of the Journal Europe in November 2001. Prior to that, Solomon spent almost four years as editor of The Wall Street Journal/New England, a weekly section he launched devoted to breaking regional news. He previously headed Texas Journal, the regional section in Texas for The Wall Street Journal. Solomon served for eight years as a Journal reporter in Houston, concentrating on the oil industry. Before that, he was a copy editor for The Journal in New York. For several years he also wrote radio and TV copy for various broadcast services of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Journal. Solomon graduated from Columbia College in 1980 with a B.A. in English, and he received a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Journalism School a year later.