Financial News hires Weeks to cover fin tech
Ryan Weeks has been hired by Barron’s Group as financial technology correspondent at Financial News. Weeks will be based in London and will lead FN’s coverage of financial technology, from the startups helping investment banks and asset managers bringing their operations into the 21st century to the financial giants racing to explore new technologies such […]
Dow Jones Newswires seeks energy reporter in London
Dow Jones Newswires seeks an experienced and speedy reporter to cover the oil and gas markets in London. The successful candidate will have a minimum of two-to-three years of experience reporting on financial markets, ideally in a real-time news environment. The role requires excellent news judgement; the ability to cut through jargon and write strong, […]
Van Wersch tapped as Asia chief editor for Dow Jones Newswires
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following announcement: I am pleased to announce that Jacques van Wersch will take on the newly created job of Asia Chief Editor for Dow Jones Newswires. Jacques will lead a broad revamp of our regional real-time news operation. We will count on him to work with […]
Chief people officer of Dow Jones to depart
William Lewis, the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Dear Colleague, After many years of service, Mark Musgrave is stepping down as Chief People Officer. I want to take a moment to acknowledge the immense contribution […]
Dow Jones’ watch list of 2.4 million people is exposed
A watch list of risky individuals and corporate entities owned by Dow Jones has been exposed, after a company with access to the database left it on a server without a password, reports Zack Whittaker of TechCrunch. Whittaker reports, “The data is all collected from public sources, such as news articles and government filings. Many […]
Dow Jones Special Committee names new member
The Dow Jones Special Committee, formed under an agreement between the former shareholders of Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. in December 2007, announced that Cynthia A. Glassman has been elected to succeed Nicholas Negroponte for a five-year term ending December 2023. Glassman is a former under secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. […]
Marketwatch.com visitors up 45 percent; Barron’s subscribers up 27 percent
Here are comments that News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson made on its second-quarter earnings conference call about its business news properties: Turning now to our own businesses, which are certainly conscious of their responsibilities as custodians of customer data. It is clear that the ongoing digital transformation of Dow Jones is efficacious. Many traditional media […]
WSJ parent reports better-than-expected earnings
News Corp., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, reported second-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street estimates due to strong results in all of its businesses. The New York-based company reported net income of $119 million, or 16 cents per share, compared to a loss a year earlier. Adjusted, the earnings were […]
Lipschutz named deputy editor in chief of WSJ, Dow Jones Newswires
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: Colleagues: I am delighted to announce that Neal Lipschutz is assuming the role of Deputy Editor in Chief for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. As deputy, Neal will work closely with me and the entire senior team on the […]
Dow Jones hires Holger to cover ETFs
Dieter Holger has been hired by Dow Jones Newswires to cover exchange traded funds and environmental, social and governance investments from its Barcelona office. He’s a U.S.-German dual national from a little town called Santa Cruz along California’s central coast. Over the past two years, he’s lived in Berlin, Cardiff and London. At Cardiff University, he studied data journalism, […]
