Reuters hire three new biz columnists
Reuters announced Thursday the hiring of Agnes Crane, Matthew Goldstein and Christopher Swann, who will join the newly created commentary team as columnists. Based in New York City, all three will report into Jeffrey Cane, U.S. editor, commentary, and will start later in May and early June. Crane has been on the front lines in […]
Dow Jones Newswires names new senior editor for Asia-Pacific
Dow Jones Newswires managing editor Neal Lipschutz sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: “I’m pleased to announce that Jason Rogers will succeed Gabriella Stern as senior editor, Asia-Pacific, effective June 1. “Gabby is returning to the U.S. after spending the past nine years as senior editor for EMEA and then APAC. She is taking […]
New ethical guidelines at Dow Jones properties
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires and Marketwatch, has issued new ethical guideliness for its business journalists. The guidelines do not mention that they apply to Barron’s, another Dow Jones property. The new guidelines include how business journalists should handle themselves using social networks such as Facebook […]
Marketwatch launches redesign aimed at raising profile
Robert MacMillan of Reuters writes about Marketwatch‘s redesign, which was launched on Tuesday and aims to put it on the same level as its Dow Jones & Co. brethren Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal. MacMillan writes, “The site will feature new layout, as well as more content, stock quotes on demand, customized […]
Dow Jones plans to double investment in India
Gouri Shah of Indian business newspaper Mint writes that Dow Jones & Co. plans to double its investment in the country in the next few years. Shah writes, “Dow Jones India has been scaling up its business in recent months, starting with the Enterprise Media Group, which includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Client Solutions, Dow […]
360,000 downloads in three weeks of WSJ iPhone app
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch disclosed the following during the company’s conference call on Wednesday: “We are seeing strong growth at the WSJ.com, as measured by our internal metrics. We had 13.4 million visitors in April last year, whereas this last month, we had 26.5 million visitors. Ad revenues for the site are forecast to […]
WSJ ad revenue declines 33% in quarter
The Wall Street Journal saw a 33 percent decline in advertising revenue during the quarter, according to a story about parent company News Corp.’s results. Nat Worden of Dow Jones Newswires writes, “As for the news business, Murdoch reiterated his position that the business model has to change. ‘Even though the present situation I think […]
McDonald defines who she is
Elizabeth MacDonald, the stock market editor at Fox Business Network, talked about the best business journalism to read to learn about the economy and her career with the Woman Around Town site. Here is an excerpt: It’s important today that teenagers achieve some level of financial literacy. Who do you think is best able to give them a […]
Dow Jones Newswires hires two new columnists
Dow Jones Newswires announced Tuesday that it has hired two non-journalists to be columnists. Paul Sharma, based in London, joins as a telecommunications, media and technology columnist and Donna Childs, based in New York, joins as a financial services columnist. “The appointments of Paul and Donna are part of our overarching strategy to enhance our […]
Dow Jones names editors to oversee investment banking coverage
Dow Jones Newswires announced Tuesday that Adam Smallman becomes the global managing editor for investment banking and Arindam Nag is promoted to deputy managing editor. “Adam’s and Arindam’s extensive experience in financial journalism, their deep knowledge of capital markets and their experience reporting on corporate strategy make them ideal leaders of Dow Jones’s frontline investment banking […]
