Dow Jones reopening offices next month for employees on voluntary basis

Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour and interim people advisor Meredith Lubitz sent out the following to the staff on Wednesday: Colleagues, Beginning Monday, September 13, we will be opening our U.S. offices for more employees who are interested in returning on a voluntary basis. Many of you have shared that you would like […]

MarketWatch.com hires Binckes as senior news editor

MarketWatch.com has hired Jeremy Binckes as a senior news editor. Binckes has been at MarketWatch parent News Corp. for the past two years working on an editorial project. He has implemented a newly developed  content management system, and trained leadership and new editors on the system. He previously was at Salon for two years, originally hired as […]

MarketWatch.com seeks an enterprise editor

MarketWatch.com has an opening for an Enterprise Editor. The job is twofold: 1. Lead a small team of in-depth and investigative reporters on medium and longer-term projects. 2. Coordinate features and enterprise stories/strategy across entire newsroom. MarketWatch is looking for someone with great reporting/and long-form editing chops, who loves working with both young and veteran […]

Passy is joining MarketWatch to cover trending money stories

MarketWatch.com has hired Charles Passy to cover trending money stories. “It’s a great website that stays on top of financial news, but is eager to look at anything and everything in the world with a curious eye,” he wrote on Twitter. “In other words, the perfect place for my next chapter.” Passy has been with Dow Jones […]

MarketWatch hires Wiles as trending money reporter

Katherine Wiles has joined MarketWatch as a trending money reporter. Most recently, she was an assistant producer for digital at “Marketplace,” having joined in 2019 as a digital intern. She then held the post of digital production assistant. Wiles was also global city editor and then a radio host at USC Annenberg Media. She also […]

MarketWatch taps Bloomberg’s Chen to cover rates and currencies

Vivien Lou Chen, a veteran Bloomberg reporter, has left to join MarketWatch in San Francisco, covering rates and currencies, the same beat she was covering at Bloomberg. Chen had been with Bloomberg for over 22 years. Chen also reported for Daily Journal Corp., Los Angeles Times and Des Moines Register. She has also interned at […]

Dow Jones union staffers to get small raise

The negotiated compensatory raise for eligible union-represented Dow Jones employees has been increased by a quarter-percent to 2.75%. Under the terms of Article IV of the collective agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones, whenever the “standard merit increase guidance for non-IAPE corporate staff” exceeds the raise negotiated by IAPE and Dow Jones, that negotiated percentage […]

MarketWatch.com seeks a trending money reporter

MarketWatch seeks a reporter who can stake a claim to the biggest and most talked-about news of the day. This writer should possess an intuitive feel for the essence of stories and why people share them, and be able to write in a punchy voice marked by a wicked sense of the absurd. At MarketWatch […]

Alpert departing WSJ for MarketWatch

Lukas Alpert, who has worked as a media reporter for 7 years, following 3 years as a correspondent in Moscow at The Wall Street Journal, is departing to join MarketWatch.com where he will be covering financial crime and scams. He will start his new position in July. During his time at The Journal, he was […]

MarketWatch.com seeks a crypto reporter

MarketWatch seeks a reporter to cover crypto, blockchain, and the burgeoning world of decentralized finance. This writer should relish demystifying complex topics, identifying risks and opportunities for investors, and poking holes in all the hype and hysteria. Tasked with making sense of one of the most exciting and confounding beats we cover, this reporter will […]