Dow Jones says Zero Hedge is paying it $140,000 for copyright infringement
Dow Jones & Co., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Monday that it is getting $140,000 as a copyright infringement lawsuit with Zero Hedge, reports Miles Weiss of Bloomberg News. Weiss reports, “Without permission, Zero Hedge allegedly posted 37 editorials and articles from the Wall Street Journal, according to a statement that Dow Jones provided […]
WSJ publisher: Our relationship is built on trust
Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour, who is also the new CEO of Dow Jones & Co., wrote the following to its readers: Dear Readers: Charles Dow and Edward Jones might not have considered this a possibility when they founded The Wall Street Journal 131 years ago, but the publication in your hands is a countercultural force […]
Dow Jones total subs hit 3.8 million, WSJ subs grew 15 percent in the fourth quarter
Dow Jones & Co., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, reported fourth-quarter revenues declined $16 million, or 4 percent, to $382 million, according to the earnings press release from parent News Corp. The decline was primarily due to a drop in advertising revenues, which were impacted by COVID-19, partially offset […]
Wenger named editorial director of Barron’s Advisor
Scott Wenger, formerly group editorial director at Arizent, has been hired as editorial director of Barron’s Advisor. Wenger had left Arizent in April. Right before he left, Arizent publication Financial Planning won two SABEW Best in Business Awards: for General Excellence in its category, SABEW’s top prize, and Best Banking/Finance coverage in its category for a […]
The man who taught business journalism to Dow, Jones and Bergstresser
University of Arkansas journalism professor Rob Wells has an article in Journalism History about John Kiernan, the 19th century journalist who trained Charles Dow, Edward Jones and Charles Bergstresser before they launched Dow Jones & Co. and The Wall Street Journal. Wells writes, “The young reporters soon began to chafe at the confines of Kiernan’s limited news […]
China Finance Online signs deal with Dow Jones
China Finance Online Co. announced Friday it has signed a partnership agreement with Dow Jones & Co. Dow Jones will provide China Finance Online with access to part of its Chinese language newswire service, including market commentary and spot news in Chinese. China Finance Online has developed one of the largest analytical financial and economic […]
Dow Jones sells VentureSource for undisclosed amount
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, has sold venture capital database company VentureSource to CB Insights. Terms were not disclosed. VentureSource provides a database tracking the key developments of venture-backed companies. It provides investment benchmarks, competitive intelligence, potential co-investors, fundraising details, and company financial and liquidity data. […]
Q&A: WSJ’s Zeisler talks about how technology is helping its journalism
Alyssa Zeisler is the the research and development chief and manager of editorial tools at The Wall Street Journal. In that role, she oversees the newspaper’s emerging technologies and computational approaches to improving the reader experience. For example, earlier this year her team launched a new “Flexicle” article feature. The experimental feature is designed to […]
Dow Jones makes five years of content available on Amazon Web Services
Dow Jones & Co. will make five years of English language news from Dow Jones publications available on AWS Data Exchange, reports Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily. Guaglione reports, “AWS customers can now purchase, access and analyze content from Dow Jones Newswires, as well as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch. “‘We are extending access to our content not just […]
Dow Jones CEO: We will review hiring practices, diversity in leadership and pay equity
Dow Jones & Co. chief executive officer Almar Latour sent out the following message on Monday: Hello, Over the past few weeks, hundreds of you have shared your experiences of racial inequality, as well as your views about how we can increase diversity, both in our newsrooms and across all of Dow Jones. Your feedback has included […]
