Dow Jones thanks employees

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires, thanked every single one of its employees in a full-page Journal ad on Tuesday. The ad included all of their names.  

News Corp splits in two, and Rupert pours champagne

News Corp. announced details of its split in two on Monday. Here’s the Wall Street Journal’s take on its own fate: News Corp on Monday fleshed out management details for when the media conglomerate splits in two, and disclosed that the News Corp. name will stay with the publishing assets. After the split, the entertainment […]

Dow Jones CEO Fenwick’s note to employees

Dow Jones & Co. CEO Lex Fenwick sent the following message to the company employees on the appointment of Gerard Baker as the new managing editor of The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal’s success over the last years boils down to what we have that our competitors covet most – the best team of journalists and […]

WSJ’s Thomson expected to be named CEO of company

News Corp. plans to name Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and editor in chief of Dow Jones, as chief executive of its publishing company as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter. John Jannarone of The Journal writes, “Other details, such as senior executive appointments, board members, […]

Two reporters named to WSJ/Dow Jones Nordic team

John Stoll, the Nordic bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday:         I am pleased to announce the addition of Juhana Rossi and Clemens Bomsdorf to the Nordic squad, representing two strong acquisitions designed to further boost the quality and […]

WSJ/Dow Jones seeks oil reporter for London

Ben Winkley, assistant news editor for the EMEA Oil Markets team in London, sent out the following job posting: Dow Jones Newswires is seeking a reporter to join the EMEA Oil Markets team, providing content across our real-time, online, print and multimedia platforms from the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires London bureau. This […]

Online WSJ subscribers: Dow Jones acted unreasonably

A group of online subscribers to The Wall Street Journal told the Second Circuit on Wednesday that Dow Jones & Co. did not act reasonably when it stopped providing access to some of its Web content, urging the appeals court to reverse a district court’s summary judgment ruling. Sean McLernon of Law360.com writes, “A New […]

Dow Jones Newswires’ Lipschutz stair-stepped his way to the top

It is a bit ironic that unlike his counterparts at rivals Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg News, the managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires never worked as a regular reporter or editor at The Wall Street Journal. Neal S. Lipschutz, who since January 2007 has overseen all of the editorial operations of the burgeoning Dow Jones […]

WSJ/Dow Jones names new Zurich bureau chief

Wall Street Journal international editor Matt Murray sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We are excited to announce that Andrew Morse will be the new chief of our WSJ/Newswires bureau in Zurich, the latest addition to our dynamic and ever-evolving Europe team. Andrew is heading to the bureau at a fascinating time for Switzerland. It […]

Lex Fenwick remakes Dow Jones

Jennifer Saba of Reuters profiles new Dow Jones & Co. CEO Lex Fenwick, who is changing how the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s operates. Saba writes, “Fenwick has been called a master salesman and business builder whose hard-charging style often runs roughshod over colleagues and subordinates. His makeover of Dow Jones […]