Dow Jones seeks news editor for video
Dow Jones seeks an exceptional senior multimedia journalist with considerable editing and producing skills and demonstrable management and leadership experience. The position entails original reporting and producing of enterprise and feature packages as well as working in conjunction with multiple WSJ journalists around the globe to produce highly crafted content designed to drive viewer and […]
Dow Jones seeks private equity reporter
Dow Jones is seeking a reporter to cover private equity deals, writing for market-leading specialist publications and contributing to the Wall Street Journal. As well as daily coverage of deals and funds, the work entails coverage of trends for Private Equity Analyst and writing posts for the WSJ’s Private Equity Beat blog. We’re seeking someone […]
DJX having lackluster results for Dow Jones
John McDuling of Quartz examines the performance of DJX, the Dow Jones & Co. product that was supposed to help it make inroads against Bloomberg and Reuters. McDuling writes, “But sources tell Quartz that the introduction of the new offering hasn’t gone smoothly. Morgan Stanley–one of Dow Jones’s biggest information-services clients by contract value—recently scaled […]
Dow Jones’ CIO Journal seeks reporter
CIO Journal is looking for a sharp reporter interested in the intersection of business and technology. CIO Journal helps readers connect the dots between technology trends and business strategy. The right candidate will demonstrate an understanding of how technology impacts corporations and the ability to draw out the real story, rather than the story that […]
Fung, former Dow Jones ME, lands at Prudential Financial
Linda Fung, a former Dow Jones Newswires managing editor who left the company last month, has started work for Prudential Financial. Fung is now vice president of global communications for the financial services company based in Newark, according to her LinkedIn page. She left Dow Jones in October after 29 years at the company. In […]
Not your father’s Wall Street Journal
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York writes Thursday about how The Wall Street Journal has changed since it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. at the end of 2007. Pompeo writes, “While its course still steers right as far as the opinion pages are concerned, the editorial integrity of the news report has remained […]
Dow Jones, private investigators clash over Factiva
Three private investigators said they are upset that Dow Jones salespeople told them they would have to purchase the firm’s reports if they wanted to continue to have access to Factiva — at a significantly increased cost to the private eyes, reports Eamon Javers of CNBC.com. Javers writes, “Factiva is a database the PIs routinely […]
Fake news release makes it onto Dow Jones
A news release saying Samsung was purchasing a Swedish tech company for $650 million was published on Dow Jones before it was discovered to be false. Sven Grundberg of The Wall Street Journal writes, “Dow Jones & Co.’s newswires republished the release from the Cision news release service. The release was removed from the Dow […]
Dow Jones chief revenue officer Rooney leaving the company
The following statements from Dow Jones CEO Lex Fenwick and Dow Jones CEO Robert Thomson were released Monday by Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal: Message From Lex Fenwick It is with warm wishes that I announce today Michael Rooney will be leaving Dow Jones to take a well-earned sabbatical. […]
How the WSJ and Dow Jones plan to build a digital-first newsroom
Almar Latour, executive editor at The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Marketwatch.com, leads the project of building a global, digital-first newsroom. Here are excerpts from a Q&A he did with the company’s public relations staff about the changes: WHY DID WE HAVE TWO NEWSROOMS TO BEGIN WITH? We had two separate units, one […]
