Dow Jones Media Group changes name to Barron’s Group
Almar Latour, the publisher of Dow Jones Media Group, sent out the following announcement to the staff: I am delighted to share that Dow Jones Media Group is to be renamed Barron’s Group. The change is effective immediately. The group rebranding effort comes as our titles collectively have reached record readership and subscriptions. Our digital […]
Business Insider hires Court as senior health reporter
Business Insider has hired Emma Court as a senior health care reporter. She started on Monday. Court previously spent three years at MarketWatch.com as a health care reporter. Before that, she interned in The Wall Street Journal’s Washington bureau, helping to cover the 2016 presidential election. Court also interned at the Dallas Morning News, the Miami Herald […]
WSJ, Barron’s parent reports better-than-expected earnings
News Corp., the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings due to growth in its TV network business and real estate listings operation. The New York-based company reported net income of $101 million, or 17 cents per share, compared to net income of $68 million, or 12 cents […]
Bloomberg hires MarketWatch’s Vlastelica for equities team
Ryan Vlastelica has joined the equities team at Bloomberg News, where he will be focusing on the technology, media, and telecom industries. He previously worked as a markets reporter at MarketWatch.com, as well as on the stocks team at Reuters. At MarketWatch, he focused on the stock market and ETFs, as well as trading themes and investment strategies. […]
Flexible paywall helped Dow Jones hit 3 million subscribers
Dow Jones & Co. hit 3 million paying subscribers across its portfolio of brands this year, thanks to its data-driven, customer-focused paywall strategy, reports Sara Guaglione of MediaPost.com. Guaglione writes, “Dow Jones, which oversees The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s, among other brands, worked to rebuild the paywall, which was a ‘one-size-fits-all approach dictated by content’ for over 20 […]
MarketWatch.com is getting its first print publication
Marketwatch.com, the Dow Jones Media Group financial news website, is going print for the first time in its 20-plus year existence. The website’s annual Best New Ideas In Money franchise will debut in print as a supplement to The Wall Street Journal — also a Dow Jones entity — on Oct. 29. “This is the […]
News Corp CEO Thomson’s compensation declined in FY 18
News Corp. chief executive officer Robert Thomson received total compensation of $12.9 million in the company’s 2018 fiscal year, down nearly 4.5 percent from his total compensation of $13.6 million during the previous year. Thomson, the former publisher and managing editor of the company’s Wall Street Journal, received a base salary of $2 million, similar […]
Dow Jones Media taps Pettit to be ME for strategy and operations
Almar Latour, publisher and executive vice president of the Dow Jones Media Group, sent out the following announcement on Thursday: All, I’m extremely pleased to announce that Dave Pettit is appointed Managing Editor, Strategy and Operations, for Dow Jones Media Group and all its titles. In this important new role, Dave will serve as the […]
Reporter Mozee has left MarketWatch.com
Reporter Carla Mozee has left MarketWatch.com after 14 years. Mozee had been covering UK and European equity markets, as well as other markets, and writing features in the London office since March 2014. She plans to do some freelance work for a while in London and may return to the United States. Mozee interned at […]
MarketWatch.com seeks a personal finance reporter
MarketWatch.com seeks a reporter for its personal finance team who can filter the news of the day through a single question: ‘What does this mean for me and my money?’ It’s what readers of every news story wonder on some level, and in a financial climate with boundless opportunity for bad decision making, answering it […]
