WSJ and Dow Jones continue combining bureaus, with Detroit the latest
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires announced internally Tuesday that they have combined their news operations in Detroit. Here is the memo from Journal deputy managing editor Matt Murray and Gabriella Stern, the senior editor for global news coverage and senior Newswires representative on the New York news Hub: […]
Financial News, DJ property, redesigns
Robert Andrews of PaidContent reports Monday that Financial News, the Dow Jones site that covers the London securities markets, has unveiled a redesign. Andrews writes, “DJ bought the site, which was started in the 90s, from its founders in 2007. WSJ’s rival Financial Times, too, is still buying small independent publishers in specific trading communities. […]
Dow Jones Newswires seeks to develop new products
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson, who also serves as editor in chief of Dow Jones & Co., sent out the following e-mail to the staff on Friday afternoon: “We are reorganizing the editorial leadership at Dow Jones Newswires to enable us to develop new global products as part of […]
Deal near for Dow Jones indexes
Dennis Berman and Jeffrey McCracken of The Wall Street Journal report Wednesday that a deal is near for the paper’s parent company to sell its stock index business.
WSJ comments from News Corp. conference call
Here are some comments made late Tuesday during the News Corp. earnings conference call: CEO Rupert Murdoch: “We have American’s number one newspaper in The Wall Street Journal. Number one in terms of circulation, influence and quality, while other prominent papers are still suffering year-on-year advertising and circulation declines, the opposite is true at the […]
Brauchli received $6.4 million to leave Wall Street Journal
Michael Calderone of Politico reports that former Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli, now the executive editor at the Washington Post, received $6.4 million when he left the business newspaper after it was acquired by News Corp. Calderone writes, “Previous reports have simply put the number in the ‘millions.’ But in Sarah Ellison‘s forthcoming […]
More on Jim Murphy from Dow Jones
Eduardo Kaplan, a managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires, has written a moving tribute to colleague Jim Murphy, who wrote the “Mark to Market” column and died Monday at the age of 66. Kaplan wrote, “Throughout the years, Jim’s ‘Mark To Market’ column lucidly dissected every major subject in the news as well as many […]
Dow Jones indexes could be sold for $700 million
Jeffrey McCracken of The Wall Street Journal reports that Dow Jones & Co. — which owns the Journal — could be selling its index business that operates the Dow Jones Industrial Average to CME Group for $700 million. McCracken writes, “The two sides had hoped to announce a deal in the past week. The latest […]
Murphy, "Mark to Market" columnist for Dow Jones, dies
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here is the e-mail sent to the staff by Dow Jones Newswires managing editor Neal Lipschutz: “It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of Jim Murphy, our esteemed ‘Mark to Market’ columnist. His pointed and often humorous writing style, his broad range of knowledge and his […]
More on Dow Jones restructuring
Dow Jones & Co. president Todd Larsen — who took over the spot at the beginning of the year — sent this memo Monday to the company’s employees, further outlining who reports to whom in the corporate restructuring where four executives are leaving the publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Larsen writes, “Dear colleagues, “I […]
