Barron’s launches email newsletter aimed at financial advisors
Barron’s launched Tuesday a daily email newsletter, available without subscription, featuring top news headlines for financial advisors. The newsletter builds on the success of the Advisor Center page on its website, which launched in October 2016, and has seen a steady increase in traffic month to month. “Our goal is to earn 5 minutes of […]
Dow Jones: Salaries don’t vary due to gender or ethnicity
Mark Musgrave, the chief people officer at Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, sent out the following to the staff on Wednesday: Dear Colleague, Over the past few months, I’ve had many thoughtful and constructive conversations with colleagues across the company about diversity and inclusion, especially regarding […]
Explaining the strategy behind Barron’s Next
Alex Eule is a senior editor at Barron’s and the person in charge of Barron’s Next, the financial newspapers website that focused on millennial investors. Eule has been at Barron’s for more than a decade as a staff writer and a senior editor. He also worked as an interactive news assistant at The Wall Street Journal. […]
Dow Jones union says it may need to file grievance
The following email went out to members of the union representing Dow Jones employees who work at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s: All, We have a contract, and — as Mark Musgrave conceded in his email from management — the Vote No campaign had its intended effect: Management and our fellow members know […]
Dow Jones union approves new contract
Employees of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, have approved a new contract calling for 2 percent raises the next three years. The approval came despite campaigning by a group of influential Journal reporters arguing that the contract should be voted down because the pay raises were […]
Barron’s seeks mutual fund/ ETF reporter
Barron’s is seeking a highly motivated writer to cover the $18 trillion mutual fund and ETF industry. Drawing upon a broad network of sources and his or her experience covering investing and the fund industry, the successful candidate will break and aggregate news while offering opinion, analysis, and actionable advice. In addition to daily blogging, […]
Barron’s seeks social and audience development editor
This newly created position will be responsible for Barron’s audience development across all social media and partner platforms in the U.S. and Asia. This editor will be responsible for growing overall audience for Barron’s, as well as developing an audience growth strategy for Barron’s new spinoff, Barron’s Next, which focuses on personal finance and investing […]
Dow Jones staffers: Why we’re voting “yes” on new contract
The following was sent to members of the union that represents business journalists at Dow Jones & Co. properties The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com after some employees urged a “no” vote on Wednesday: Dear fellow IAPE members, Wednesday, you received an email detailing a tentative contract agreement between your union and the company. […]
RIABiz: Barron’s Next misses the mark with its content
Janice Kirkel of RIABiz.com is critical of Dow Jones & Co. for the launch of the new Barron’s Next site aimed at millennial readers. Kirkel writes, “Barron’s Next, along with almost every other news source in the country, finds itself weighing the journalistic compromises that come with the mandate to ‘satisfy millennials’ need to get […]
Union to Dow Jones biz journalists: Deal falls short of what we wanted
Here is the note that the union representing business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com sent to its members about the Dow Jones contract: IAPE members — following up on this morning’s joint announcement of a tentative contract agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones & Company, we, the members of the Union […]
