Dow Jones CEO bullish on prospects
Les Hinton, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires, sent the following e-mail to the company staff on the wake of its recent performance: First-quarter results confirm the wisdom of investing in our products and services to provide more value to readers […]
Dow Jones Newswires head of wealth management coverage moving to new job
Dow Jones Newswires Americas senior editor Rick Stine sent out the following announcement Monday afternoon: I am pleased to announce that Brian Cronk, who has been overseeing Newswires wealth management coverage for the past several years, is moving into a new position as head of editorial for the custom publishing group of Dow Jones. Brian […]
WSJ's secret project will focus on foreign coverage
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE In mid September, Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson made an internal announcement, appointing two journalists to oversee a secret project that he said would be “crucial to our success as a company.” Since then, speculation has run rampant about the project, as guesses have speculated that it might anything […]
Laid off biz reporter finds job with Dow Jones
Deborah Gage, a business journalist who lost her job with the San Francisco Chronicle in 2009 due to layoffs, has been hired by Dow Jones. Gage will be covering venture capital, startups and tech for VentureWire and developing stories for the Wall Street Journal. She had been freelancing for the past 16 months and has […]
WSJ/Dow Jones name Canada bureau chief
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson sent out the following announcement on Friday morning: I am pleased to announce that Chip Cummins will become Bureau Chief for Canada, overseeing Dow Jones Newswires and Wall Street Journal reporters based in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary. Chip takes on this important leadership role as Canada, including Saskatchewan, […]
Dow Jones/WSJ seek editor on hub desk
Deborah Brewster, the deputy managing editor at The Wall Street Journal in charge of hiring, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Tuesday afternoon: Following the departure of Mike Reid, Dow Jones newswires has a vacancy for a senior editor who will work closely with the WSJ. It may be that someone at […]
Dow Jones editor leaving for PIMCO PR
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Michael Reid, who earlier this year received a promotion to editor of global news coverage at Dow Jones Newswires, is leaving the business news service for a public relations job with institutional investor PIMCO. Reid, who previously was a deputy managing editor of Dow Jones, is leaving the wire on Tuesday, […]
Dow Jones hires new energy reporter
Angel Gonzalez, the Houston bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday: Ben Lefebvre joins the Houston bureau of Dow Jones Newswires to cover crude-oil refiners and the markets that influence fuel production in the U.S., the world’s largest oil consumer. Ben is taking on the beat […]
Inside The Wall Street Journal newsroom
Here is a photo of the main editing desk in The Wall Street Journal‘s main newsroom in New York. In the background is the office of managing editor Robert Thomson. The picture was taken Friday morning during a tour of nearly 60 college students in New York for the “Getting Started in Business News” conference.
Outside the Barron's office
Here is a nice display of Barron’s covers outside of its offices in New York. The picture was taken during a tour of the Dow Jones & Co. news operations on Friday morning.
