Former Dow Jones/WSJ reporter Lombardi joins Politico
Pietro Lombardi, a senior reporter covering major banks and insurers in continental Europe for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, has joined Politico Europe in Brussels. Lombardi joined Dow Jones as an intern, and has also previously co-authored several front-page stories for The Journal. He has also worked as a data journalist at […]
WSJ’s Jones named president of Dow Jones News Fund board
Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour sent out the following on Monday: Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce Brent Jones is unanimously elected President of the Dow Jones News Fund (DJNF) by its Board of Directors, succeeding Dick Levine, who is retiring following 16 years of remarkable service. The Dow Jones News Fund has promoted careers in journalism since 1958, benefiting […]
BIJ appoints Mendonça environment reporter
Elisângela Mendonça has joined The Bureau of Investigative Journalism as an environment reporter. Mendonça is an award-winning journalist with over 10 years’ experience in reporting, production, research, fact-checking and PR. Most recently, she was a reporter at Dow Jones, covering news and features for Private Equity News and Financial News. Her bylines have also appeared […]
Mavin departs Dow Jones for Tortoise Media
Duncan Mavin has joined Tortoise Media as a journalist. Most recently, he was an editorial advisor to the CEO at Dow Jones. He has also worked as a managing editor – Barron’s Group and as head of editorial projects – Barron’s Group. He has also written columns about finance for Bloomberg. Mavin also held various […]
Dow Jones taps Hutchison as CCO
Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour sent out the following: Colleagues, We’re pleased to share that Matthew Hutchison is appointed Chief Communications Officer for Dow Jones. Matthew will oversee our corporate communications at a time of significant change and sharp digital growth at Dow Jones, making it more important than ever to share our story with clarity, […]
Dow Jones, which operates WSJ, MarketWatch, Barron’s, reports strong third quarter
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, reported a 6 percent increase in third quarter revenue to $421 million, primarily due to growth in circulation and subscription and digital advertising revenues. Digital revenues at Dow Jones in the quarter represented 74 percent of total revenues compared to 68 […]
News Corp completes acquisition of Investor’s Business Daily
News Corp. has completed its acquisition of Investor’s Business Daily from O’Neil Capital Management. The business will be operated by Dow Jones, a News Corp. subsidiary. Also, Investor’s Business Daily will continue to be based at its headquarters in Los Angeles, and will operate as a stand-alone brand as part of Dow Jones. Robert Thomson, […]
Dow Jones Newswires seeks reporter in Singapore
Dow Jones Newswires is looking for a digitally proficient financial journalist to join our Singapore-based team of journalists who help fuel our real-time news and analysis service for financial professionals. You will identify the most important elements of major news releases, send headlines and quickly write stories and essential updates that will provide professional investors […]
Dow Jones Newswires seeks market insights writers
Dow Jones Newswires, the professional investor news service of The Wall Street Journal, is looking for an experienced financial reporter, editor or analyst to write commentary on business, markets and economics. You will bring deep knowledge of companies, investing and finance and be able to quickly analyze important news and identify the positive or negative […]
Dow Jones had best profit since News Corp. acquisition
News Corp. chief executive officer Robert Thomson made the following comments during its second-quarter conference call: Dow Jones also set records this quarter, including having its highest absolute EBITDA since News Corp acquired the company in late 2007 with segment EBITDA up 43%, while for New York Times eked out a 1% increase. Digital advertising expanded 29%, […]
