He is also the editor, publisher and creative voice of The Kendall Park Post-Herald, a once-print and now online newsletter featuring sensationalistic coverage of his own extended family. (Scoops include "Dad, a Sunday Driver, Hits a Hyundai Driver," Summer 1998.)

Krishnan has spent his entire nine-year professional career at the Journal, and all on the editing side of the business. He started out as a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund intern at the Journal in 1990 and returned to the New York headquarters the following summer as a full-time copy editor, after graduating from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

He moved to the slot position in 1994 and then to a job editing features for The Wall Street Journal Reports special sections and the Journal's regional supplements. He was most recently assistant foreign editor, overseeing features and long-term coverage areas for the foreign desk in New York. He now runs the Classroom Edition from the Journal's offices in Detroit.

Krishnan has done internships on the copy desks of the Chicago Sun-Times and The Dallas Morning News, site of his last known byline. As a senior at Northwestern in 1990, he won the Asian American Journalists Association's national and New York chapter scholarships. He was also a founding editor of the SAJA Stylebook, an online guide for reporters covering South Asiana.

Krishnan is a Tamil-speaking native of India, but has lived in the U.S. since he was a toddler-first in Flushing, N.Y., later in the Dow Jones company town of South Brunswick, N.J., and now in West Bloomfield, Mich. He is married to Aparna Joshi, an attending radiologist at the Children's Hospital of Michigan. They have a nearly three-year-old daughter named Maitreyi, who can sing two full stanzas of "Om, Jaya Jagdish Hare."