Promotions on the WSJ sports desk
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following staff announcement on Friday morning: Our highly talented sports team continues to out-run, out-hit, out-score, out-box and generally vanquish all-comers for intelligent sports coverage and so I’m delighted to announce some changes designed to give it an even bigger global, digital and real-time lead. […]
How the WSJ and Dow Jones plan to build a digital-first newsroom
Almar Latour, executive editor at The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Marketwatch.com, leads the project of building a global, digital-first newsroom. Here are excerpts from a Q&A he did with the company’s public relations staff about the changes: WHY DID WE HAVE TWO NEWSROOMS TO BEGIN WITH? We had two separate units, one […]
WSJ will miss the scoops from Mossberg, Swisher
David Holmes of Pando Daily has some interesting data that shows why The Wall Street Journal will miss tech journalists Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who ran All Things Digital but are leaving the company at the end of the year. Holmes writes, “What about overall brand strength? How many eyeballs and clicks will News […]
Wall Street Journal reorganizes U.S. news coverage
Jennifer Forsyth, the U.S. news editor of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff hires and promotions in an email on Wednesday: Dear valued colleagues, As many of you know, we have reorganized our U.S. News coverage. I am very excited about a new team of leaders the Journal has allowed me […]
WSJ’s Baker: We will expand tech news coverage, conference biz
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following message to the staff on Wednesday: No topic in business journalism is of greater importance than technology. In the last quarter century, the pace of innovation has accelerated, lifting productivity, eliminating distance, disrupting age-old business practices and generally transforming the way we […]
WSJ editor Baker warns of native ad dangers
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker warned Tuesday of the dangers of “native advertising,” a buzzword these days describing the practice of presenting brand-generated content in the style of editorial, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York. Pompeo writes, “‘The clear delineation between news and advertising is becoming more and more blurred. We have to resist […]
Ex SmartMoney ME named news editor on WSJ news desk
Wall Street Journal real-time editor Steve Wisnefski sent out the following staff promotion on Wednesday: We are pleased to announce that Tedra Meyer has been named news editor for national coverage on the WSJ’s Real-Time News Desk. With the appointment, the New York-based senior management team of the newly created desk is in place, an […]
Refocusing coverage in an age of new media
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker discussed a need for editors and reporters at The Journal to refocus their coverage in an age of new media in a speech Tuesday at New York University. Amy Zhang of the Washington Square News reports, “Baker, who also serves as the managing editor of the The Wall […]
WSJ seeking legal beat reporter
Joanna Chung, who is the law bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following job announcement on Tuesday: The Wall Street Journal’s Law Bureau is looking for a driven, experienced journalist to cover New York’s enforcement agencies. The person will lead coverage of investigations emanating from the U.S. Attorney’s offices in Manhattan […]
News Corp. making mistake by not resigning Mossberg/Swisher
Richard Morgan of The Deal writes about the decision by News Corp. not to renew the contracts of technology journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, who had been running its All Things Digital site. Morgan writes, “Newspapers have been the target of so many potshots in recent years it hurts to see the best of […]
