MarketWatch IPO reporter Huston hired by Broadway News
Caitlin Huston, who covered startups and initial public offerings for MarkeWatch.com, has been hired to be editor in chief of Broadway News. The full site for Broadway News, which covers news from the theater business, will launch soon. It’s from the same operation that produces the Broadway Briefing daily email newsletter. Huston had been at MarketWatch […]
What’s behind MarketWatch’s Moneyologist column?
Quentin Fottrell is the personal finance editor at MarketWatch, where he is also the Moneyologist columnist, answering personal finance questions from readers. Fottrell is the former Ireland correspondent for Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. He was born in Dublin and studied psychology in University College Dublin and journalism in University College Galway. Fottrell once wrote a weekly radio review column […]
MarketWatch.com reporter Berman wins Birger award
Jillian Berman, 28, a New York-based reporter for MarketWatch.com, is the 2017 winner of the Larry Birger Young Business Journalist contest, honoring journalists younger than 30. It is the fourth year of the competition. The past winners were William Alden, Cezary Podkul and Mina Kimes. Additionally this year, the judging panel chose to honor two […]
MarketWatch.com seeks tech reporter in New York
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 New York bureau, this reporter must be able to break down a corporate earnings report and find the most interesting angle, see through executives’ platitudes to […]
MarketWatch hires Cherney in San Francisco
MarketWatch.com tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief Jeremy Owens sent out the following announcement: MarketWatchers and S.F. folks, Please welcome MarketWatch’s new tech reporter in San Francisco, Max Cherney. Max started this morning, as most in the S.F. Bureau already know because they’ve had to listen to me talking endlessly as I show him the ropes. […]
MarketWatch adds Witkowski to tech team
MarketWatch.com tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief Jeremy Owens sent out the following announcement on Friday: Everyone, Please welcome Wally Witkowski to his new role on the Companies team as a tech reporter. Wally is moving over from the Markets team to help cover the technology industry from the heart of Silicon Valley. Wally will hit […]
Tappe hired by MarketWatch.com to cover currencies
MarketWatch.com markets editor Mark DeCambre sent out the following message to the staff: Anneken Tappe has joined the markets team as a reporter, specializing in currencies. She was most recently working at Debtwire covering high-yield bonds, and has tracked private-equity funds, which can’t get enough of junk debt. She was born and raised in Germany […]
Dow Jones launches group for LGBT employees
Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch.com and Barron’s, sent out the following to its employees on Monday: Pride@DJ, a new organization for LGBTQ employees at Dow Jones, has officially launched and is welcoming new members. Similar to the successful efforts of Women@DJ, Pride@DJ will bring together lesbian, gay, bisexual, […]
Dow Jones folding Heat Street into MarketWatch
News Corp.’s conservative digital media site Heat Street is folding in August into personal finance and business news site MarketWatch.com, reports Steven Perlberg of BuzzFeed. Perlberg writes, “Heat Street, which has about 15 employees, launched as a right-of-center digital media upstart in an increasingly crowded conservative media field, taking on sites like Breitbart, the Daily Caller, IJR, […]
MarketWatch adds Albrecht to personal finance team
MarketWatch.com personal finance editor Quentin Fottrell sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday: Hi MarketWatchers, I’d like to introduce you all to Leslie Albrecht, the latest addition to the Personal Finance team. Leslie has both a colorful and rock solid background in journalism — the old-fashioned kind. She started out as a city reporter for the […]
