Dow Jones Newswires seeks real-time reporter
Dow Jones Newswires, the real-time professional news service of The Wall Street Journal, is looking for a dynamic, fast reporter to cover company-related breaking news for the world’s most influential investors. This job positions you on the front line of our real-time coverage, writing stories about mergers and acquisitions, executive changes and quarterly earnings for […]
Financial News wins three State Street awards
Financial News, a Dow Jones publication, won three prizes at the prestigious State Street Institutional Press Awards this past week. Editor Chris Newlands won two awards — one for Breaking News Journalist of the Year and the other for Best Editorial Comment. Lucy McNulty won Journalist of the Year for Regulation. “Financial News works very […]
Dow Jones union approves new contract
A majority of the members of IAPE The NewsGuild-CWA Local 1096 have voted to approve a new, three-year collective agreement with Dow Jones. Polls closed on Sunday at 11:59 a.m. EST and 91.2 percent of voting members approved the new agreement while about 8.8 percent chose to reject the deal. Seven hundred forty members voted. […]
Union reaches tentative agreement with Dow Jones
IAPE 1096, the union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, sent out the following to its members on Monday: IAPE’s board of directors has approved a tentative agreement for a new contract that was hammered out Thursday night between Dow Jones representatives and our bargaining committee. Now the majority […]
Dow Jones offers ratification bonus to union
Dow Jones & Co. has offered a ratification bonus of 0.5 percent of an employee’s salary to the union representing many of its workers. The parent company of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s is still offering a salary increase of 2 percent in 2019 and 2020 and 2.25 percent in 2021. The union […]
Union to Dow Jones CEO Lewis: Without us, you’re nothing
IAPE 1096, the union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s and is negotiating a new contract, sent the following letter to Dow Jones CEO Will Lewis: Dear Will: It’s been a very good year for Dow Jones. The Journal now has a record 2.6 million subscribers. Revenue in the […]
Facebook offers millions to Dow Jones, Bloomberg, but nothing to Reuters and AP
Facebook has offered millions to Dow Jones and Bloomberg to put its content on its new news page, but hasn’t offered money to rival wire services Reuters and the Associate Press, reports Anna Nicolau and Alex Barker of the Financial Times. Nicolau and Barker report, “The social media giant has offered no money to Reuters […]
Union asks Dow Jones for raises of at least 3.25 percent for next three years
The union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s has asked the parent company for raises of at least 3.25 percent over the next three years. The raise requests are 3.25 percent for 2019, 3.5 percent for 2020 and 3.75 percent for 2021. The company is offering […]
Reuters hires Griffin to report from Colombia
Reuters has hired Dow Jones reporter Oliver Griffin to report from Colombia. He will start next month. Griffin is a mining and energy reporter for Dow Jones in Barcelona. Before that, he covered stories as a freelancer in Latin America and South America, including Pablo Escobar’s rampaging hippos and free speech in Honduras. His stories […]
News Corp. CEO Thomson’s compensation rose 13 percent in FY19
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson saw his total compensation rise 13.6 percent to $14.7 million in the company’s 2019 fiscal year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Thomson’s base salary rose 50 percent to $3 million in the fiscal year. His stock awards rose slightly to $5.5 million from $5.4 million […]
