Dow Jones hires Havens as chief growth officer

Scott Havens

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, has hired M. Scott Havens as its chief growth officer, reports Mark Stenberg of Adweek.

He will start in January.

He most recently was at the New York Mets as president of business operations. Before that, he was CEO of Bloomberg Media.

Havens joined Bloomberg Media in 2015 and has played an integral role in the digital transformation and globalization of the brand. Under his leadership, the company saw record revenue and audience growth and now has more than 500,000 subscribers.

Prior to Bloomberg, Havens was senior vice president of digital at Time Inc., where he managed operations and drove the strategic development of digital products within the news, business, sports, and entertainment publications.

Havens was also previously president of The Atlantic, playing a key role in the successful digital transformation of the magazine, including strategy and operational roles in the digital launches of The Atlantic Wire, Quartz and CityLab, which was acquired by Bloomberg Media in 2019.

He served as executive director at Condé Nast Business Media and is a founder of the business site Portfolio.com.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.