Dow Jones/WSJ reporter leaving for job at grad school
Anusha Shrivastava, a reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal for the past six years, is departing for a job at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism at the beginning of next year. In an email to the staff, Shrivastava writes, “After more than six years covering exciting and unusual beats ranging […]
All things disclosure
If you’re familiar with coverage of the technology beat, you’re undoubtedly familiar with All Things D run by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. What you might not be as familiar with is their disclosure statements, Swisher’s in particular. Mossberg’s statement can be found here. In her statement, Swisher discloses the following information: Swisher’s spouse, Meghan […]
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 […]
