Dow Jones makes changes to WSJ Europe operations
Dow Jones & Co. anmnounced Tuesday some a organizational change in an attempt to accelerate the continuing growth of The Wall Street Journal franchise overseas. The company named Andrew Langhoff as publisher of The Wall Street Journal Europe and managing director of Dow Jones Consumer Media Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Langhoff’s appointment is effective Jan. 5, 2009. […]
New head of FiLife named; Kansas to remain as editor at large
Peter Kafka, who writes the Media Memo blog for the All Things Digital site, reports Tuesday that the personal finance Web site FiLife, a joint venture between IAC and Dow Jones & Co., has replaced president Dave Kansas. Kafka writes, “The company has brought in Ezra Kucharz, formerly an executive at online games company Oberon […]
Dow Jones launches news service in Spain
Dow Jones & Co. and Spain’s Agencia EFE launched Tuesday the new EFE Dow Jones News service, a joint Spanish-language news service for financial professionals, corporations, media, institutions and private investors in Spain. EFE Dow Jones News offers Spanish-language local news, in-depth analysis, commentary and coverage on small- and mid-cap companies. It is produced by a team […]
China ends limits on biz news firms
John Miller and James Areddy of The Wall Street Journal report Thursday that China agreed to repeal a regulation requiring western news services to disclose sales data and other confidential information to a government-controlled Chinese competitor. Miller and Areddy write, “Dow Jones, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters all welcomed the change. The new rule will protect the […]
Cuts coming at Dow Jones Newswires? PR person says no
Clare Hart, the president of the Enterprise Media Group at Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, sent an e-mail overnight to its employees warning of layoffs. The group includes Dow Jones Newswires, as well as Factiva and Dow Jones Indexes. However, the e-mail didn’t specifically state that cuts would be […]
Baker appointed WSJ deputy editor-in-chief to Thomson
The following announcement was sent out to The Wall Street Journal staff on Wednesday by managing editor Robert Thomson: “I am delighted to announce that Gerard Baker is appointed Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones. Gerry has had a distinguished career as a journalist at the BBC, Financial Times and The […]
Remembering WSJ's Barney Kilgore
Dick Tofel, a former assistant publisher at The Wall Street Journal and the author of an upcoming book about Journal managing editor Barney Kilgore, writes in the paper’s editorial page on his 100th birthday about his lasting influence at the paper and in business journalism. Tofel writes, “By the time he died prematurely in 1967, […]
The rush to be first in business journalism
James Surowiecki of the New Yorker writes about the Dow Jones story last week that falsely reported about General Electric’s outlook for 2009, causing its stock to fall, before the story was corrected. Surowiecki writes, “And it’s a massive move when you consider that the story itself sounded, from the start, improbable. Why, after all, […]
WSJ contempt trial begins in Singapore
Melanie Lee of Reuters reports Tuesday that the Wall Street Journal‘s contempt case in Singapore has begun, with the country’s attorney general accusing the newspaper of a two-decades-long attack on its judicial system. Lee writes, “Singapore’s attorney general is seeking contempt proceedings against the publisher of the Asian edition of the Wall Street Journal, News […]
Murdoch: Huge effort with WSJ
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is in Australia, and he’s talking about the huge effort the company is putting behind The Wall Street Journal. Terry McCrann of the Melbourne Herald-Sun writes, “We want to build the Saturday Journal into a really big weekend read, he goes on. That might cost another $US4-5 million a year. […]
