Fenwick named CEO of Dow Jones
Lex Fenwick, an executive at Bloomberg LP, has been named CEO of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires. Russell Adams of The Journal writes, “Mr. Fenwick, who helped build Bloomberg into a leading provider of data and tools for financial professionals, will now be […]
Dow Jones econ reporter says arrivederci
Luca Di Leo, a senior economics reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, is leaving the news organization to return to Italy. In an e-mail to his colleagues send Wednesday afternoon, Di Leo wrote, “After a truly eventful 11 years, tomorrow will be my last day at Dow Jones. It’s been an […]
Dow Jones looking to hire Bloomberg executive to be its CEO
Russell Adams of The Wall Street Journal reports that its parent company, Dow Jones & Co., is in talks with Bloomberg executive Lex Fenwick to be its next chief executive officer. Former Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, who also served as Journal publisher, resigned last year after being implicated in the News Corp. phone hacking […]
Dow Jones FX team names assistant news editor
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Michael Casey, managing editor of Americas for foreign exchange, fixed income and economics, made the following staff announcement on Tuesday: It is our pleasure to inform you that Geoffrey Rogow, currently a reporter covering foreign exchange, economics and debt markets in Sydney, will be returning to New York on Feb. 21 […]
Dow Jones hires Rosenbush for new CIO Journal
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Steve Rosenbush will join The Wall Street Journal as deputy editor of an upcoming new vertical targeting CIOs and other senior business technology executives – to be called CIO Journal and set to launch in the spring. It will be available online as well as through most smartphone devices and an […]
Changes made to WSJ’s digital management
Alisa Bowen, general manager of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, the company’s consumer digital business group, made the following staff announcements on Friday afternoon: It is with tremendous pride that I would like to confirm what many of you already know – we have an incredible team of talented people, and when new opportunities […]
News Corp. names new general counsel
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch sent out the following announcement to all company employees on Monday: I am pleased to announce that Gerson Zweifach will be joining News Corporation as Senior Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel on February 1 (press release attached). He is one of the country’s most renowned litigators and a […]
Top 10 biz journalism events for 2011
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here are the top 10 events in business journalism in the past 12 months: 10. Randall Lane’s hiring as editor of Forbes in August. The business magazine has undergone a design and conceptual overhaul under Lewis Dvorkin. Now it’s time for Lane to execute with improved content that will draw in […]
Dow Jones Newswires names news editor for media monitoring desk
Dow Jones Newswires senior editor Steve Wisnefski made the following staff announcement on Thursday morning: I am pleased to announce that Josh Beckerman has been appointed to head the media monitoring desk at Dow Jones Newswires. He replaces Michelle Gerdes, who recently joined the WSJ’s standards and practices department. Josh, who has been with Dow […]
DJ/WSJ makes beat changes to Paris bureau
Gráinne McCarthy, the Paris bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, made the following staff announcement on Friday: I am delighted to announce a couple of changes in the DJ-WSJ Paris bureau. Noémie Bisserbe officially takes over the French banking beat, an area she has been covering on an interim basis […]
