Dow Jones hires ABS reporter from Reuters
Mark Stein, assistant managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires, made the following announcement to the staff on Friday afternoon: I am pleased to announce that Albert H. Yoon will be joining Dow Jones Newswires in New York City as a reporter covering asset-backed securities, mortgages and the housing market. Al has an extensive background covering […]
WSJ sues Texas over sales tax
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, has sued the state of Texas after its comptroller ruled that it is not a newspaper and should pay state taxes. Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter writes, “The Murdoch-owned newspaper believes it is being penalized by the state for charging more than $1.50 […]
AllThingsD launches redesign
AllThingsD, the Dow Jones & Co. website that covers tech news, has been redesigned. Co-executive editors Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg write, “As you will see, in the new set-up, all blog posts belong to AllThingsD and no longer operate under a variety of column names. “We thought long and hard about this change, which […]
Dow Jones names new FX reporter
Michael Casey, managing editor of Americas for foreign exchange, fixed income and economics, made the following staff announcement on Monday: Colleagues, let me introduce Dawn Kissi, who joins us today as the latest member of our FX reporting team. Dawn comes to us from the Global Association of Risk Professionals, where she was a financial […]
Computer virus affecting Dow Jones
Lucia Moses of Adweek writes about how a computer virus has hit the employees at Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal. Moses writes, “The timing of the infection, which hit May 12, was ominous, as 34 employees represented by the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees, most of them techs, got […]
Judge recommends in favor of Dow Jones in Medicare records case
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE A U.S. magistrate in Florida recommended in favor of Dow Jones & Co.‘s plea to reopen and intervene in a 32-year-old case that closed Medicare records from the media, saying the previous rationale for blocking access to the data might be “outdated.” Dow Jones, the parent of The Wall Street Journal, […]
Flint retiring from Dow Jones Newswires
Michael Casey, managing editor for foreign exchange & fixed income, Americas at Dow Jones Newswires, and Jim Pinsiero,the editor of Dow Jones FX Trader, sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon: Some bittersweet news: After a distinguished career at Dow Jones spanning nearly two decades, Robert Flint will be retiring at the end of […]
Dow Jones revenue up 5 percent through three quarters
Les Hinton, the chief executive officer of Dow Jones & Co., sent the following message to employees of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires on Thursday afternoon: We enter this final fiscal quarter of 2011 with many accomplishments to our collective credit. We continue to bring to the market new products […]
Dow Jones CEO talks Wall Street Journal
The financial and economic meltdown helped the Wall Street Journal become the nation’s largest weekday paper, Les Hinton, chief executive of Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., said in San Francisco on Tuesday. Kathleen Pender of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, “With moderator Quentin Hardy of Forbes, Hinton discussed the Journal’s tablet app, social media, […]
WSJ.com launches CFO Journal
David Kaplan of PaidContent.org writes Wednesday about CFO Journal, a web-based subscription service launched by WSJ.com aimed at corporate finance officers and providing coverage of accounting, tax, regulation, capital markets, banking, management and strategy issues. Kaplan writes, “CFO Journal is the latest in a series of subscription offerings intended to appeal to Dow Jones core […]
