The editor of one of my favorite foreign papers is now a managing editor at the Washington Post:

The Washington Post named two managing editors today, one of them the first woman to hold that title in the paper’s history, in an effort to speed the merger of the company’s print and online newsrooms.
Elizabeth Spayd, who has been a top editor on both sides of the Potomac River that separates the two newsrooms, will be responsible for the hard-news sections of the newspaper, located on The Post’s fifth floor. Raju Narisetti, a former deputy managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, will oversee the fourth floor, which includes Style and other feature sections. Executive Editor Marcus Brauchli, who made the announcement, is pairing a longtime insider with someone who is unknown to journalists at The Post.
… Narisetti, 42, launched a national business newspaper in India in 2007. The Indian-American worked with Brauchli in several roles at the Journal, the newspaper where Brauchli was the top editor until owner Rupert Murdoch helped pressure him into leaving last spring.
… Narisetti resigned two week ago as founding editor of the Mint, which was conceived as a joint publication and Web site in India. “When you’re crazy enough to start a newspaper in 2007, you rethink a lot of the approaches to it,” he said. “It gives you the luxury of a lot of fresh ideas that an existing newspaper doesn’t have.”

This is a very good sign. Mint is a pro-market, pro-trade, pro-capitalism newspaper, and the WaPo could use a dose of its intelligence.