Inside the Dow Jones R&D operation
The Economist has a brief story about the research and development operations at Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch.com. The story reads, “The team has been in existence for under a year, but it’s already developed a few products that are soon to launch. One is a […]
Barron’s to critique investment journalism
John Kimelman of Barron’s has started a new column called “Read This, Spike That” that will provide critiques of other financial media’s investment advice. Kimelman writes, “We’ve taken note of the growing number of mostly free financial Websites that are trying to do what Barron’s has done for decades: that is, they take firm stands […]
How biz media is often a contrary indicator
Randall Forsyth of Barron’s writes about how the media coverage of the markets is often a contrary indicator for future performance. Forsyth writes, “‘As Worries Ebb, Small Investors Propel Markets,’ was the headline of the lead story on page one of Saturday’s New York Times. ‘Americans seem to be falling in love with stocks again,’ […]
Nuggets about business journalism from the News Corp. filing
There are some interesting business journalism facts in the News Corp. filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will split its newspaper and media operations into a separate company. They include: WSJ.com, which offers both free and premium content, averaged more than 34 million visitors per month on average for the 12 months ended […]
Dow Jones thanks employees
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires, thanked every single one of its employees in a full-page Journal ad on Tuesday. The ad included all of their names.
Barron’s Santoli joins Yahoo Finance
Michael Santoli, an associate editor for Barron’s, has left the Dow Jones business and financial weekly for a job with Yahooo Finance as a senior columnist. In this new role, Santoli will serve as a voice on financial markets and economic news, providing analysis and breaking commentary of market and economic trends. He will also […]
Online WSJ subscribers: Dow Jones acted unreasonably
A group of online subscribers to The Wall Street Journal told the Second Circuit on Wednesday that Dow Jones & Co. did not act reasonably when it stopped providing access to some of its Web content, urging the appeals court to reverse a district court’s summary judgment ruling. Sean McLernon of Law360.com writes, “A New […]
Barron’s Abelson is one for the record books
If there were a definitive business journalism Book of Records, Alan Abelson would no doubt dominate some major categories: Longest current tenure as a columnist at a single business/financial news outlet; Sued or the subject of threatened lawsuits by the most number of story subjects; Subject of the largest number of letters to the editor […]
Dow Jones union: Layoffs are happening, end free labor
Steven Yount, the president of the union that represents business journalists working at Dow Jones & Co. properties, sent out the following email to the news staff on Wednesday: Since the first of the year, Dow Jones has laid off 62 of your co-workers (31 of them in the last week of June) and once […]
How to write for specific financial media
Joshua Brown writes on his Reformed Broker blog about what it takes to write for specific financial media outlets. Here are some of his examples: “How to write a stock article for CNNMoney or MarketWatch: Line up quotes from a bull and a bear on a given stock – give a paragraph to each to […]
