Dow Jones Newswires reorganizes Latin American ops
Steve Wisnefski, senior editor of Americas for Dow Jones Newswires, made the following staff announcement on Wednesday: I am pleased to announce Santiago Perez has been appointed real-time Latin America editor and Charles Roth will become lead writer for a soon-to-be-launched Wall Street Journal blog on Latin America. Santiago, who currently serves as chief of […]
Krim named acting editor of Marketwatch.com
Raju Narisetti, the managing editor of WSJ.com who also was put in charge of Marketwatch.com when its editor David Callaway left for USA Today, sent out the following announcement on Monday afternoon: I am delighted to name Jonathan Krim as acting editor of MarketWatch.com, effective immediately. Jonathan is already intimately familiar with MarketWatch, having consulted with […]
Labor Department releases data early
The Department of Labor on Thursday released its closely watched weekly jobless report at least five minutes early on its website, ahead of its embargo release time for business reportrs, reports Geoffrey Rogow and Stephen L. Bernard of Dow Jones Newswires. Rogow and Bernard writes, “Each week, the Labor Department releases its weekly jobless report […]
SmartMoney.com announces staff
Although Dow Jones & Co. announced last month that it was closing SmartMoney‘s print publication, the website lives on. Raju Narisetti, who is the managing editor of WSJ.com and oversees the online operations of SmartMoney, sent out the following staff announcements on Wednesday: We are delighted to announce the expansion of SmartMoney.com with several additions […]
Dow Jones to sell newswires through WSJ.com
Dow Jones & Co. plans to sell its newswires content and all of its content to financial institutions directly through The Wall Street Journal website, according to a story from Jennifer Saba at Reuters. Saba writes, “Fenwick’s ambitions to sell directly to financial institutions is a change in strategy for Dow Jones. It comes at […]
The WSJ and Dow Jones team in Beijing works around the clock
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE BEIJING — A team of more than 100 journalists and translators work at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires operation in Beijing, literally around the clock. There are 70 journalists on the news side and almost 50 working in the translation unit, explained China editor Andrew Browne in a […]
Dow Jones buys remaining 40 percent stake in WSJ’s Japan site
Dow Jones & Co. announced Friday that it has acquired the 40 percent stake of its Japanese language site for The Wall Street Journal that it didn’t already own from its business partner. Following completion of the acquisition, Dow Jones will expand operations of the web site, which is one of the fastest-growing local-language offerings within […]
Dow Jones union: Layoffs are happening, end free labor
Steven Yount, the president of the union that represents business journalists working at Dow Jones & Co. properties, sent out the following email to the news staff on Wednesday: Since the first of the year, Dow Jones has laid off 62 of your co-workers (31 of them in the last week of June) and once […]
New wealth management news editor named at Dow Jones
Kevin Noblet, the managing editor of wealth management coverage at Dow Jones Newswires, made the following staff announcement on Tuesday: I’m delighted to announce that Patrick Graham is joining the wealth management team as its news editor. Patrick joined Dow Jones in 2001 as a copy editor on the Newswires Enterprise Desk, which merged with […]
The data-driven expansion of WSJ parent Dow Jones
Alex Klein of The Daily Beast writes about how new Dow Jones & Co. CEO Lex Fenwick, previously at Bloomberg, is expanding the Wall Street Journal parent’s data offerings. Klein writes, “He has started a new division, Data Strategy, which according to a Dow Jones internal memo will funnel data to business and institutional customers. […]
