MarketWatch.com seeks a Washington bureau chief

MarketWatch.com seeks an ambitious bureau chief for Washington, D.C., to lead a team of ambitious reporters covering the momentous in the nation’s capital, with a focus on politics, policy, finance and economics. The ideal candidate will be eager to stake a claim to the intersection of Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, with fingers firmly on […]

MarketWatch.com is adding a paywall

MarketWatch.com is adding a paywall, writes editor in chief Jeremy Olshan. The base price is $19.99 a month, with a $22.99/month rate for MarketWatch and Barron’s. Olshan writes, “Our subscription program will help us better serve you with more real-time, in-depth analysis, more personalized information, and deeper insights into what the news means for you and […]

MarketWatch.com hires Sumagaysay to cover the gig economy

MarketWatch.com has hired Levi Sumagaysay to cover the gig economy. She will start on July 20. Sumagaysay had previously been at Protocol, the new tech news site from the owners of Politico, before leaving in April. Sumagaysay reported on Silicon Valley. She joined Protocol from the San Jose Mercury News, where she was a tech reporter. A former […]

MarketWatch reporter Cherney moving to Barron’s to cover tech

MarketWatch reporter Max Cherney will be moving to sister publisher Barron’s in June to cover technology. He has been with MarketWatch since July 2017. Most recently, he was covering public pot companies. He previously covered e-commerce for IBD, with a focus on Amazon, and most recently was a staffer for J, the Jewish news weekly of northern […]

MarketWatch seeks a tech reporter in San Francisco

MarketWatch is seeking a technology reporter to track the money flowing to and from some of the largest and most important companies in the world. Working out of the San Francisco Bureau, this reporter must be able to break down a corporate earnings report and find the most interesting angle, see through executives’ platitudes to […]

Subscription cross selling among Dow Jones publications

News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson made the following comments during the company’s earnings conference call about subscriptions at The Wall Street Journal: Look, in terms of the subscribers are, obviously, we have had strong growth in U.S. subscriptions. And I think the thing to remember about Wall Street Journal subscriptions, once you have a subscriber, […]

Dow Jones hits 3.6 million paid subscribers

Dow Jones & Co. set a new record of nearly 3.6 million total subscriptions in the third quarter across The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s Group, representing a 10% increase year-over-year, including a 20% increase in digital only growth. As part of the company’s third quarter earnings report, News Corp. also noted that The Wall […]

MarketWatch.com hires Morales as engagement editor

Maria Lamagna Morales has been hired by MarketWatch.com as its engagement editor. She has been working in an editor role at CNBC’s “Make It.” Lamagna has previously worked for MarketWatch as a social media editor and reporter. She joined MarketWatch.com in November 2015. Prior to this role, Lamagna also worked as a web producer and […]

MarketWatch.com seeks an automation editor

MarketWatch.com is looking to further explore automation opportunities to personalize the content experience; To provide readers with world-class information about their interests, their stocks, and their portfolio. In pursuit of these efforts we are looking for an Automation Editor who will help drive automation and machine learning efforts across the MarketWatch platform, as well as […]

MarketWatch.com seeks corporate regulation reporter/editor

MarketWatch seeks an editor/reporter who can oversee coverage of one of the most important and exciting stories of the moment: corporate and financial regulation. Important, because the economy, society and the future of capitalism are at stake. Exciting, since due to the festering showdown between Big Tech and government, and the widening GAAP between corporate […]