Union talks tough with Dow Jones management
E.S. “Jim” Browning has been a Wall Street Journal reporter for more than 27 years, in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris and New York. He currently write about financial markets and investing for the Journal. But for the hundreds of business journalists who work at the Journal or Dow Jones properties such as MarketWatch, Barron’s and […]
Barron's redesign critiqued
Following the lead of its sister publication, The Wall Street Journal, weekly business paper Barron’s has also undergone a redesign, and Sheldon Liber, a CEO of a small private investment company, critiqued the changes on bloggingstocks.com. Liber wrote, “As one who liked it fine just as it was, I am on the look out for […]
Q&A with Wall Street Journal publisher
Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz recently oversaw a redesign of the newspaper, making it smaller, but also focusing it more on analysis instead of breaking news. Crovitz began his career at Dow Jones in 1980 as a summer intern writing editorials for The Journal. He was founding editorial page editor of The Wall Street […]
WSJ, Marketwatch union: Company becoming impatient
An update posted on the web site of the union that represents business journalists working at The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch, Dow Jones Newswires and Barron’s stated that the Dow Jones negotiators are becoming impatient in recent contract negotiations. The update stated, “They told us at our four-hour bargaining session on Tuesday January 9th that […]
Who paid for union ad in New York Times?
As noted earlier, the union representing business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch and Dow Jones Newswire ran an ad in the New York Times on Tuesday about the redesigned Journal and its current negotiations with parent company Dow Jones. Apparently the union, the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, has received a few […]
Get to know your biz reporter better
A Red Herring story that discusses how Dow Jones is making videos from The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch available on blinkx and Lycos talks about using its business journalists more for the medium. Michael Cohn wrote, “Dow Jones has also been working on enlisting the entire news staff on developing original video content. […]
WSJ and Barron's videos now searchable
Red Herring is reporting that Dow Jones properties Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch are now providing their videos available by video search company blinkx and its customer Lycos. Michael Cohn wrote, “While most of the content on the Wall Street Journal Online as well as Barron’s Online is available by paid subscription only, the […]
Study at Dow Jones evaluating news gathering
A Bloomberg story that was based on interviews with Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger and publisher Gordon Crovitz noted that there is currently an internal study being led to determine how to “coordinate” news gathering. Reporter Leon Lazaroff wrote, “Dow Jones plans to streamline news operations across the Journal, Newswires, MarketWatch and Barron’s. […]
Union slams decision to run breakingviews.com column in WSJ
The union that represents journalists who work for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Dow Jones Newswires and MarketWatch criticized a decision by parent company Dow Jones to run a column from Breakingviews.com every day in the Journal. Union president Steve Yount, in a statement posted on its web site, stated that the move “move that […]
Barron's editor: Should Yahoo buy Dow Jones?
Eric Savitz, the West Coast editor of Barron’s, which is owned by Dow Jones, suggested on his Tech Trader Daily blog that no one would complain at his shop if Internet company Yahoo should consider making a bid for his parent company. The conversation resulted from Savitz posting an item on the blog by JupiterMedia […]
