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 […]
Dow Jones CEO Lewis responds to union
Here is the letter that Dow Jones CEO William Lewis sent Friday night to the IAPE 1096 union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s. Dear IAPE-represented colleagues, Thank you for your letters, which I have spent time thinking about. I appreciate you making this effort to share your thoughts […]
Dow Jones CEO says union offer is “unrealistic”
The IAPE 1096, which represents the business journalists at Dow Jones & Co., sent out the following announcement to its staff: IAPE members — More than 400 of you from bureaus around the United States and in Canada signed letters to Dow Jones CEO Will Lewis objecting to the company’s troublesome stance in contract negotiations. […]
MarketWatch.com seeks markets reporter
MarketWatch.com seeks a New York-based reporter who wants to reshape how the stock, bond, currency and commodity markets are covered. The reporter will push stories beyond the daily swings, jolts, and slides, teasing out the bursts of insight and analysis readers need to make smarter decisions about their investments. The job requires not only an obsession with markets and investing, but a willingness […]
WSJ union proposes 5 percent pay increases
The union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com has initially proposed a 5 percent pay increase for each of the next three years. The Independent Association of Publishers’ Employees is also asking for a minimum raise of $50 per week. Negotiations between the union and Dow Jones & Co. on […]
MarketWatch.com seeks reporter in New York
MarketWatch seeks a reporter who can filter the big news of the day through a single question: “What does this mean for me and my money?” On some level, every story is a money story, and this reporter will be tasked with digging for unique angles on the news to give readers the information they […]
WSJ hires two for WSJ Pro venture capital team
Nick Elliott, a managing editor overseeing private equity, venture capital and bankruptcy at the Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: Tomio Geron, who was previously with Dow Jones VentureWire, is back in action as a reporter in the San Francisco bureau for The Wall Street Journal’s VC Pro team. Tomio originally […]
Why MarketWatch.com wishes it wasn’t a Loeb finalist
Jeremy Olshan, the editor of MarketWatch.com, writes Thursday that the financial news website wishes its coverage of student loan debt was not a finalist for a Gerald Loeb Award. Olshan writes, “It’s not that Jillian Berman isn’t worthy: Her coverage of America’s student-loan crisis, and the surprising ways this $1 trillion debt burden has repercussions […]
