Dow Jones CEO Latour bullish on subscriptions
Sarah Fischer of Axios interviewed Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour, who expressed continued optimism about growing subscriptions at its publications, which include The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com, Barron’s and Investor’s Business Daily. Fischer writes, “While most of WSJ’s subscription growth occurred during 2020 — a critical election year and the onset of the pandemic — […]
Dow Jones Newswires head: We will never be 100% staffed
Chip Cummins is the chief newswires editor of Dow Jones Newswires, the real-time financial news service of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following on Wednesday: Folks, I wanted to share a quick update on some of the new hiring and rebuilding we’ve been doing around the world. We have now filled all our […]
MLex seeks a reporter in Washington
MLex, a LexisNexis company, is an independent news organization for breaking news and forward-looking analysis on legal and regulatory risk across the globe. Investigative journalists provide exclusive reporting on probes, policy and enforcement trends, litigation and legislative developments across key areas of regulatory risk: Antitrust, M&A, Data Privacy & Security, Financial Crime, Trade, State Aid […]
Reuters parent reports better-than-expected earnings
Thomson Reuters Corp. on Thursday reported higher-than-expected quarterly profit, and said it struck deals to license its content to help train large AI language models, reports Kenneth Li of Reuters. Li reports, “Reuters News revenue rose 11% and adjusted earnings before tax, depreciation and amortization rose 56% from generative AI-related content licensing revenue, the company said. “Hasker […]
Dow Jones Newswires seeks chief Americas editor
The Wall Street Journal is looking for a senior editor to serve as chief Americas editor for Dow Jones Newswires, the real-time financial news service of the Journal. The Newswires serves millions of financial professionals around the world. Reporters and editors in its three main newsrooms – in New York, Barcelona and Singapore – also […]
News Corp. CEO Thomson comments on Dow Jones
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson made the following comments during its earnings conference call about the performance of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Investor’s Business Daily: Subscriptions at the news business are continuing to grow and during the month of January, average daily digital subscriptions to […]
BridgeTower Media acquires ColoradoBiz
BridgeTower Media, which operates business publications across the country, had acquired ColoradoBiz for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 1973, ColoradoBiz is the largest business publication in Colorado. It has a monthly print magazine and a website. “Business is booming in Colorado, and we see an opportunity to accelerate growth in ColoradoBiz through this acquisition by leveraging […]
WSJ parent nearly doubles net income in second quarter
News Corp., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, reported second-quarter earnings nearly doubled to $183 million, boosted by a record performance at Dow Jones & Co. Dow Jones, which operates The Journal, MarketWatch.com, Barron’s and Investor’s Business Daily, reported a 4% increase in revenue to $584 million and EBITDA earnings of $163 million, a […]
Oremus to co-write “Tech 202” newsletter at Washington Post
Washington Post tech reporter Will Oremus is now co-writing the “Tech 202” newsletter with Cristiano Lima-Strong. Oremus joined the Post in 2021. Before the Post, he was senior writer for OneZero, Medium’s science and tech publication, where he wrote a weekly newsletter called “Pattern Matching.” Before that, he was Slate’s senior technology writer and co-host of the Slate podcast […]
TheStreet taps Krol as a senior reporter
Jake Krol has been hired by TheStreet.com as a senior reporter covering consumer technology. He most recently was at The Arena Group as a senior editor. Krol previously was a tech and electronics editor at CNN Underscored. Prior to joining CNN, Krol was a tech writer at Mashable. Before that, he was an intern at CNBC. He […]
