Dow Jones accuses Briefing.com of stealing content
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, has filed a lawsuit against Briefing.com, accusing it of stealing its headlines and its other business news content, write Bob Van Voris and Sarah Rabil of Bloomberg News. Van Voris and Rabil write, “Dow Jones, the owner of a financial […]
New WSJ auto writer in Detroit
Wall Street Journal Detroit bureau chief Neal Boudette sent out the following announcement on Wednesday afternoon: “Please join me in welcoming Mike Ramsey to the WSJ/DJN bureau in Detroit. He will take over coverage of the Asian automakers, including Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai. As part of the merged bureau in Detroit, he will cover […]
Dow Jones going solar at NJ location
Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton sent out the following announcement to the staffs of The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch.com, Dow Jones Newswires and Barron’s on Monday: “Dow Jones is about to make a major investment in solar energy. This exciting project will make our South Brunswick campus the largest solar power installation at […]
ME, deputy ME named at Dow Jones Newswires
Dow Jones Newswires Gabriella Stern, senior editor for global news coverage, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: “I’m pleased to let you know that Nick Elliott will become Dow Jones Newswires managing editor for private markets and newsletters, effective April 1. Nick will report to me and will serve as the group’s main liaison […]
Dow Jones: No iPad access until we test
Eric Savitz, who blogs about tech for Barrons.com, has posted an internal Dow Jones & Co. policy related to the upcoming iPad and how it will interact with its networks. The memo reads: Apple will make the iPad available on April 3rd, 2010. We understand the commercial importance of this product as it presents another […]
Palm Beach Post reporter to join Dow Jones
Charles Passy, a general assignment reporter at the Palm Beach Post, is joining Dow Jones Newswires to cover wealth management. Brian Cronk, the managing editor of wealth management coverage, writes Tuesday in an e-mail announcement to the staff that Passy will join the staff on April 19 as a writer and columnist. Cronk writes, “Charles […]
SABEW members fell 6 percent in 2009
Membership in the Society of American Business Editors and Writers dropped by 6 percent, or about 200 business journalists, in 2009, according to a report given to its members Saturday. The organization now has approximately 3,000 members. However, some large business news organizations increased their SABEW membership. Journalists in the group from Thomson Reuters rose […]
Dow Jones, union reach agreement on new four-year contract
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Marketwatch.com, and the Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract. The package has been endorsed by the IAPE Bargaining Committee and is being reviewed by the union’s Executive Council. It will then be […]
Judge's ruling could affect reporting on analyst recommendations
A federal judge ruled Thursday that a financial Web site misappropriated the “time-sensitive recommendations” of several banks by immediately publishing news of analyst rating changes often before those recommendations are fully shared with clients, according to a Dow Jones Newswires story. The move could affect when other financial news sites report such news. Reporter Chad […]
Thomson Reuters gets into indexing as Dow Jones exits market
Ian Salisbury of Dow Jones Newswires writes about how Thomson Reuters has introduced a whole slew of new indexes of the markets at a time when rival Dow Jones & Co. is selling its index business. Salisbury writes, “The company, which provides financial data terminals and owns the Reuters news service, on Monday launched 7,500 […]
