Dow Jones staffers: Why we’re voting “yes” on new contract

The following was sent to members of the union that represents business journalists at Dow Jones & Co. properties The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com after some employees urged a “no” vote on Wednesday: Dear fellow IAPE members, Wednesday, you received an email detailing a tentative contract agreement between your union and the company. […]

Union to Dow Jones biz journalists: Deal falls short of what we wanted

Here is the note that the union representing business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com sent to its members about the Dow Jones contract: IAPE members — following up on this morning’s joint announcement of a tentative contract agreement between IAPE and Dow Jones & Company, we, the members of the Union […]

Dow Jones and union agree to three-year contract

The union representing business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com and Dow Jones & Co. have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year collective bargaining agreement covering some 1,300 employees across the United States and in Canada. The deal, agreed to by representatives of the union and the company, has been […]

Four dozen WSJ staffers have had buyout offers accepted

The union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: Following a memo to staff from WSJ editor in chief Gerry Baker, Dow Jones representatives confirmed to IAPE that layoffs will begin today at the Wall Street Journal, beginning with staff […]

MarketWatch launches The Big Deal newsletter on AT&T/Time Warner

MarketWatch.com has started a daily email newsletter called The Big Deal focused on news and analysis about AT&T’s proposed $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. The newsletter will be written by media reporter Trey Williams. MarketWatch editor in chief Jeremy Olshan explained its origination in an email to Talking Biz News: Most email newsletters are treated […]

Dow Jones union: We don’t know number of jobs to be eliminated

The union representing business journalists at Dow Jones & Co. sent out the following to its members on Friday afternoon: About today’s buyout memo from Gerry Baker — here’s what we know: Dow Jones has offered buyouts to all news staff at The Wall Street Journal. Terms of the buyout offer generally mirror what an […]

Dow Jones to union: Expect restructuring soon

The union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires sent out the following announcement on Tuesday: IAPE members, We have reached a real crossroads moment in these contract negotiations with Dow Jones.  Please read this note closely, as your input will be very important in the coming […]

MarketWatch.com seeks personal finance editor

MarketWatch.com seeks an editor to help run its personal finance team. Based in New York, the ideal candidate will work to 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 […]

How News Corp. properties are sharing content

Lucia Moses of Digiday writes about how News Corp. has created a new way for its media properties such as The Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.com to share content. Moses writes, “The initiative, called Project Hamilton, collects relevant articles from the publications and runs them at the bottom of individual articles. The story module is running […]

MarketWatch.com hires two new personal finance reporters

MarketWatch.com has hired two new personal finance reporters — Alessandra Malito and Kari Paul. They both started on Monday. Malito began her reporting career at a Long Island community newspaper when she was 15 years old. In the decade since, she has graduated with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Stony Brook University and a […]