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 […]
MarketWatch.com seeks engagement editor
MarketWatch seeks an editor to lead efforts to make its coverage more engaging and impactful to readers. It includes among other things rethinking the company’s approach to social media, assigning pieces that live at the intersection of money and the zeitgeist, finding innovative ways to tell stories with data and graphics, and developing content strategies […]
MarketWatch appoints Buchwald as new personal finance reporter
Elisabeth Buchwald will be leaving the MarketWatch team in Washington, D.C., to join the organization’s personal finance team in New York. Her new role begins next month. Previously, Buchwald was news desk and production intern at CNBC. Before that, she held the post of contributor at Media File. Additionally, she has also interned at Thunder11 […]
MarketWatch.com reporter McKenna departs
Francine McKenna, a reporter at MarketWatch.com, has left the Dow Jones publication after four-and-a-half years. McKenna covered financial regulation and legislation with an eye on transparency at the SEC, PCAOB, FASB, CFTC, CFPB, FINRA and at hearings in the Senate and House. She plans to stay in Washington and continue to teach in the American […]
Dow Jones union approves new contract
A majority of the members of IAPE The NewsGuild-CWA Local 1096 have voted to approve a new, three-year collective agreement with Dow Jones. Polls closed on Sunday at 11:59 a.m. EST and 91.2 percent of voting members approved the new agreement while about 8.8 percent chose to reject the deal. Seven hundred forty members voted. […]
Barron’s, MarketWatch start live 10-minute show
Dow Jones’ Barron’s Group is combining two of its brands — Barron’s and MarketWatch — to launch a new live, weekly 10-minute digital show covering financial news, reports Deanna Ting of Digiday. Ting reports, “Debuting today at 9 a.m. Eastern, ‘MarketBrief’ is billed as ‘taking stock of the news in 10 minutes or less’ and […]
Union reaches tentative agreement with Dow Jones
IAPE 1096, the union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, sent out the following to its members on Monday: IAPE’s board of directors has approved a tentative agreement for a new contract that was hammered out Thursday night between Dow Jones representatives and our bargaining committee. Now the majority […]
Dow Jones offers ratification bonus to union
Dow Jones & Co. has offered a ratification bonus of 0.5 percent of an employee’s salary to the union representing many of its workers. The parent company of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s is still offering a salary increase of 2 percent in 2019 and 2020 and 2.25 percent in 2021. The union […]
News Corp. CEO Thomson’s compensation rose 13 percent in FY19
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson saw his total compensation rise 13.6 percent to $14.7 million in the company’s 2019 fiscal year, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Thomson’s base salary rose 50 percent to $3 million in the fiscal year. His stock awards rose slightly to $5.5 million from $5.4 million […]
MarketWatch.com reporter Chang dies at 53
Sue Chang, a longtime MarketWatch reporter and editor, died at her home in California on Monday from cancer. She was 53. Myra P. Saefong and Claudia Assis of MarketWatch.com write, “One day in Korea she came across a random ad looking for rookie reporters. “That innocuous start led her to report on some of the biggest […]
