The best of times, and the worst of times, in financial journalism

Former boss of Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal Will Lewis, and ex-Financial Times editor Lionel Barber talked financial journalism, reports Press Gazette. Both executives spoke via video conference organized by the Center for the Study of Financial Innovation. Lewis says: “We have to get people to tighten up. Because the world needs facts […]

Dow Jones’ Financial News seeks deputy production editor

Dow Jones is looking for a deputy production editor who will play a crucial role in editing, sub-editing and production of daily content across all of FN’s digital channels and social media accounts as well as overseeing production of the weekly print magazine. In this role, you will be working with the production editor. An […]

Dow Jones to award £10,000 to Journalism Diversity Fund

Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal will be awarding £10,000 to the Journalism Diversity Fund as part of a scheme aimed at increasing diversity in UK journalism. The fund is administered by the National Council for the Training of Journalists and awards bursaries to journalists from diverse backgrounds who do not have the […]

Dow Jones seeks platform editor for NewsPlus

Dow Jones is hiring a platform editor for NewsPlus, its web portal for financial professionals. To work in this capacity, candidates must be comfortable working in a digital news environment. As an editor, you will use news judgment to assess stories for publication and will also help the team for compiling newsletters, smart briefings and […]

Dow Jones seeks reporter in Barcelona

Dow Jones is hiring for a versatile reporter as part of its real-time news service for financial professionals. The role reports to the deputy chief news editor. The reporter will monitor press releases, websites and other sources of news and send headlines and short stories on key developments for publication in real time. Accuracy, speed, […]

Dow Jones seeks research editor in New Jersey

Dow Jones is hiring for a research editor who will research and write high-quality reports on companies and/or individuals using a combination of publically-available and proprietary sources. As an editor, you will closely work with the Due Diligence team to ensure that the reports meet client requirements in terms of content quality, accuracy, timeliness and […]

Horton to become professional services correspondent at Financial News

Emily Horton will be stepping into the newly created role of professional services correspondent for Financial News at Dow Jones. There, she will be covering auditors, consultancies, law firms and head hunters. Before that, she held the post of an intern and then a reporter at the company. Horton has also served as a press […]

Dow Jones/WSJ autos reporter departs to freelance

Max Bernhard has left his job as a reporter covering European autos with Dow Jones, Newswires and The Wall Street Journal with the new year. Instead, now, he will be reporting from Hong Kong covering the pro-democracy protests as a freelancer. His long-term plans are to be based in Tokyo. Before joining Dow Jones and […]

Mokha promoted to deputy spot news editor at Dow Jones/WSJ

Glenn Hall, global chief editor at Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following announcement: I am pleased to announce the promotion of Kavita Mokha to Deputy Spot News Editor for the Americas. Kavita joins us in New York from the publishing desk in Barcelona, where she has played an integral role in the success of […]

Dow Jones seeks a reporter

Dow Jones is hiring a reporter for its versatile newsroom in Barcelona. The reporter will be working with other people in the newsroom who fuel its real-time news service for financial professionals. The reporter will be responsible for monitoring press-release feeds, websites and other sources of news and fire off headlines and short stories on […]