Dow Jones Newswires names Santiago bureau chief
Gabriella Stern, the senior editor for global news coverage at Dow Jones Newswires, and Charlie Roth, an assistant managing editor overseeing Dow Jones Newswires’ Latin America coverage, sent out the following announcement on Friday: “We’re pleased to announce that Carolina Pica has been promoted to bureau chief of the Santiago, Chile, bureau, where she has […]
News editor named for Dow Jones Newswires stock market team
Linda Fung, the managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires, and Grainne McCarthy, markets editor for WSJ.com and Newswires, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: “We are pleased to announce that Joe Bel Bruno will be joining our U.S. stock market team as a News Editor. He will oversee the group that covers the U.S. […]
Dow Jones News Fund exec director Holden to receive award
Richard S. Holden, executive director of the Dow Jones News Fund, will receive the 2010 Gerald Sass Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism and Mass Communication, presented by the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication. Holden is a longtime business journalist, and the fund pays for about 20 business journalism internships every year. […]
Dow Jones builds news machine aimed at asset managers
Mary Campbell of FINAlternatives writes about Lexicon, a new reading machine from Dow Jones & Co. for asset managers. Campbell writes, “Lexicon examines massive volumes of Dow Jones real-time news, identifying crucial words and phrases that signal trends or patterns. The words are analyzed for sentiment, frequency and other relevant analytics based upon proprietary dictionaries […]
WSJ launches “The Big Interview” series
The Wall Street Journal announced the debut of “The Big Interview,” a weekly online video series showcasing influential executives, policy makers, news makers and opinion leaders in one-on-one interviews hosted by senior reporters and editors from The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch. The premiere episode — now available via http://wsj.com/biginterview — features an interview with FDIC […]
TheStreet.com insiders, including Cramer, buying shares
Kathy Schwiff of Dow Jones Newswires reports Thursday that insiders at online financial news site TheStreet.com have been purchasing its shares. Some on Wall Street believe that’s a sign the stock price will rise. Schwiff writes, “Cramer supplied his viewers with a test case in the past month, spending $302,000 on 100,000 shares of TheStreet.com, […]
Dow Jones gets almost half of revenue from digital publications
Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton told a Japanese crowd on Monday that the company gets nearly half its revenue from digital publications because progress in media technology is continuing despite a global recession. Takashi Kitazume of the Japan Times writes, “‘New products come to market faster than ever, and the WSJ’s new iPad […]
Dow Jones wants $10k from Briefing.com to settle
Dow Jones & Co. indicated to a federal judge Friday that it wanted roughly $10,000 per infringed article from financial information service Briefing.com to settle a suit accusing the Web-based company of swiping verbatim content minutes after publication, writes Christie Smythe of Law360.com, which covers the legal industry. Smythe writes, “Robert P. LoBue of Patterson […]
Biz media companies sued in bank rate publishing dispute
BanxCorp, operator of the BanxQuote website, sued media companies including News Corp.’s Dow Jones & Co. and New York Times Co., accusing them of forming a cartel to sell information on bank interest rates online, writes Don Jeffrey of Bloomberg News. Jeffrey reports, “The companies conspired with Bankrate Inc. to ‘gain an unfair advantage over […]
Dow Jones & Co. wins patent ruling
Dow Jones and Co. has successfully brought an end to licensing demands by Ablaise Ltd. for two of its patents. In 2006, Ablaise threatened to sue unless Dow Jones paid for what Ablaise claimed was its exclusive, patented technology for personalizing content on Web sites. In response, Dow Jones filed suit against Ablaise in federal […]
