LinkedIn editor at large Andrew Murfett profiled Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour, who has risen from a Wall Street Journal intern to running the company.
Murfett writes, “Latour would steadily climb the ranks at Dow Jones, taking on roles such as Eastern European and Nordic foreign correspondent, tech reporter, desk editing roles and, eventually, senior corporate leadership.
“It was during his days reporting on the technology beat that he began to sense he had the entrepreneurial chops to consider growing his management footprint within the larger company. At the same time he was generating stories, he was also developing ideas outside that realm about growing The Wall Street Journal brand. This would eventually lead to him becoming enmeshed in The Journal’s long term data and journalism strategy.
“‘Even though I didn’t recognize it then, I was looking at journalism through a business and builder’s lens,’ he says. ‘Building has always been a part of me, so when I look back, I didn’t need to make a hard switch into management, because I was already in a way doing it. Plus I had done a little bit of HTML programming and knew enough to be dangerous at a place that hadn’t specialized in it. So when the big questions came up, like, what should we do in digital and such, it was a natural world for me to play in — even while still being in the newsroom.'”
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