Dow Jones union: Layoffs are happening, end free labor
Steven Yount, the president of the union that represents business journalists working at Dow Jones & Co. properties, sent out the following email to the news staff on Wednesday: Since the first of the year, Dow Jones has laid off 62 of your co-workers (31 of them in the last week of June) and once […]
Marketwatch.com editor Callaway named editor of USA Today
David Callaway, the editor in chief of financial news site Marketwatch.com, has been named editor of USA Today. Marketwatch.com founder Larry Kramer was named the paper’s publisher earlier this year. A story on the USA Today site states, “‘Callaway will start the new job later this month. “”David is a distinguished journalist with a deep […]
Weidner on biz media and covering Wall Street
David Weidner, a Marketwatch.com Wall Street columnist and leaving New York for San Francisco, where he will begin writing a new column in a few weeks focusing on another aspect of finance. In his column, he offers advice and commentary for business journalists covering Wall Street: Timing is everything: Market journalism should be written in […]
Biz media more favorable toward Facebook than Google
Howard Gold writes Friday on Marketwatch.com that the business media has written more favorably about Facebook during its initial public offering than it did when Google went public. Gold writes, “And after reviewing many articles, I was surprised to find the tone fairly positive. Sure, writers have raised questions about Facebook’s valuation, its ability to […]
How to write for specific financial media
Joshua Brown writes on his Reformed Broker blog about what it takes to write for specific financial media outlets. Here are some of his examples: “How to write a stock article for CNNMoney or MarketWatch: Line up quotes from a bull and a bear on a given stock – give a paragraph to each to […]
Marketwatch columnist also a white nationalist, reports Business Insider
Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider is reporting that Marketwatch.com columnist Peter Brimelow is also a white nationalist who runs a website that argues against multiculturalism and immigration. Weisenthal writes that he has reached out to Marketwatch and its parent, Dow Jones & Co., for a response, but has yet to receive one. Weisenthal writes, “So […]
Reuters editor in chief: We are full speed ahead
Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler spoke with Marketwatch.com media columnist Jon Friedman and said a new CEO of the news organization’s parent company, Thomson Reuters, won’t curtail its growth. Friedman writes, “When I spoke with Adler on Monday, he couldn’t have sounded more confident that Smith, who will replace Tom Glocer on Jan. 1, […]
Marketwatch.com holding contest to pick its next investment columnist
Marketwatch.com, a financial news site owned by Dow Jones & Co., is currently holding a contest to select its next investing columnist. Voting is now open for round two, and voting remains open through Nov. 13. The site says it will announce the six survivors — the three top vote-getters and three chosen by the […]
Most widely read biz news site is, surprise, Yahoo Finance
Eric Jackson of Forbes.com looks at Compete numbers of traffic on business news sites and discovers that Yahoo Finance still gets more visitors than business news heavyweights such as The Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney and others. Jackson writes, “And the biggest kahuna when it comes to financial news – at least by visitors — is […]
Business media outlets accused of patent infringement
Bloomberg LP and Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, and five other media outlets were sued for allegedly infringing two patents for “instantaneous symbol lookup,” used on websites. A Bloomberg News story states, “Boadin Technology LLC, which said it owns the rights to the patents, filed the lawsuit yesterday in […]
