WSJ names head of Market Talk group
Wall Street Journal senior editor Gabriella Stern and senior editor Steve Wisnefski made the following staff announcement on Friday afternoon: We are pleased to announce that Pat Sullivan will lead our newly combined Market Talk group in New York. Pat, who has been the chief editor on the NewsPlus desk for the past five years, […]
WSJ/Dow Jones names Sydney bureau chief
Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent out the following announcement on Monday: “Having mastered the intricacies of life in the Middle East, Andrew Critchlow will now be grappling with one of the world’s most inscrutable cultures, that of Australia. Andy is our new Bureau Chief in Sydney, and will be driving coverage of […]
Bloomberg working on new editorial product dubbed “First Word”
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Bloomberg News has assembled a team of editorial staffers to put together a new product scheduled to launch this summer, sources at the organization tell Talking Biz News. The new service, called by one employee as a “wire within a wire,” is designed to compete against StreetAccount. Street Account is a […]
FT adds financial dictionary to site
The Financial Times announced Tuesday the launch of the Financial Times Lexicon, a dedicated glossary of financial terms. The online glossary is free and has more than 10,000 entries, the capability to join discussions with other readers and the opportunity to suggest new terms. With content sourced from the Financial Times and Longman Business Dictionaries, the Financial […]
WSJ ME Thomson: Reporters will be judged on whether they break news
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent the following memo — which signals that Dow Jones plans to compete more aggressively against Reuters, Bloomberg and AP — to all Journal and Dow Jones Newswire reporters on Thursday: “There is no doubt that co-operation between Newswires and Journal journalists has improved markedly […]
