Dow Jones creates new publishing unit headed by Latour
Dow Jones, the financial news and information company within News Corp. responsible for The Wall Street Journal, has created a new publishing unit, reports Joe Pompeo of Politico. Pompeo writes, “Dow Jones Media Group will include existing brands like the magazine Barron’s and the websites Marketwatch and Mansion Global. It will also explore the launch […]
Remembering MarketWatch’s Jim Jelter
Shawn Langlois, a markets reporter at MarketWatch.com, writes Thursday about Jim Jelter, his co-worker who died Wednesday at the age of 62. Langlois writes, “When Jim started his gig in San Francisco, the MarketWatch newsroom couldn’t help but eavesdrop on the phone conversations he fluently conducted in Norwegian. He was probably talking about sailing or […]
Longtime business journalist Jelter dies from cancer
Business journalist Jim Jelter died Wednesday morning in his native Walnut Creek, Calif., at home with family after battling cancer. Jelter was deputy investing/corporate news editor for MarketWatch.com based in San Francisco, a position he held for more than a decade. The investing/corporate news team reports on more than 150 companies, including some of the […]
MarketWatch.com hires Riquier as its housing finance reporter
Steve Goldstein, Washington bureau chief for MarketWatch.com, sent out the following announcement on Monday: Please welcome our new housing finance reporter, Andrea Riquier, based in DC. Most recently at Investor’s Business Daily, she also worked at Debtwire, alongside Ellie, and also interned at Bloomberg. Andrea now has a vastly different commute, seeing as how she […]
Marketwatch.com hires LaMagna to cover personal finance
Marketwatch.com personal finance editor Angela Moore sent out the following announcement on Monday: Hello all! I’m happy to announce that Maria LaMagna has joined the personal finance team. If the name is familiar it’s because she was an intern here two years ago. After leaving MarketWatch she was at Bloomberg working on the Bloomberg View […]
MarketWatch.com seeks home page editor in San Francisco
MarketWatch.com is looking for a San Francisco-based home page/overnight editor to manage the site’s front page, edit and publish copy, spot breaking news and identify and develop follow-up stories with unique angles. We’re looking for an applicant who has solid news judgment, strong reporting skills, an entrepreneurial approach and a thorough understanding of what catches […]
MarketWatch.com seeks personal finance reporter
MarketWatch.com 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?” Every story is a personal finance story. People don’t read about business, finance, and public policy just for academic edification, but to for their own self interest. So this […]
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 […]
MarketWatch.com seeks editor in New York
MarketWatch seeks an editor for its New York newsroom with strong copy editing skills, a punchy writing style, and a willingness to aggressively rewrite copy on deadline. The ideal candidate will have five or more years of experience in online news, a knack for helping to tease out sharp angles and distill stories to their […]
Andria Cheng leaves WSJ/MarketWatch.com
Wall Street Journal and MarketWatch.com reporter Andria Cheng sent out the following announcement to her colleagues on Friday: Who are we without our jobs? “You take your work too seriously,” sometimes I’d hear friends say. “It’s just a job.” But is it just a job? Call me idealistic. I have always felt a responsibility to […]
