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 […]
How the WSJ and Dow Jones are weathering the pandemic
Anna Nicolau and Alex Barker of The Financial Times examine how The Wall Street Journal’s business model is working during the current pandemic. Nicolau and Barker write, “While parts of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp business are struggling financially, the Dow Jones division has fared relatively well with the WSJ reaching 3m subscribers for the first […]
New Dow Jones CEO Latour: I will move quickly and decisively
New Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour sent out the following to employees on Monday: Hello Everyone, Today is my first day as CEO – a humbling moment, which comes 25 years after starting here as a news assistant delivering mail and archiving clips. Over that time period, I have worked with many of you across […]
New Dow Jones CEO Latour: A reputation for being creative and innovative
Max Willens of Digiday profiled new Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour, who rose to that spot last week. Willens writes, “Under Latour, the titles in Barron’s Group began to work together more closely, sharing resources and content while also diversifying their respective businesses. ‘There was this vision of what we could be together,’ an […]
ProPublica, Dow Jones, Bloomberg, NY Times sue SBA
ProPublica, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The New York Times and Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, sued the Small Business Administration on Tuesday over its refusal to release detailed information for loans provided through the $659 billion Paycheck Protection Program. Paul Kiel of ProPublica writes, “The SBA hasn’t argued that the names […]
