MarketWatch seeks company reporter

MarketWatch seeks a reporter to join its companies team, covering all aspects of the corporate story from fundamentals such as earnings and share-price moves to strategic initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions, spinoffs and board changes. The beat will cover a wide range of sectors and story types, from spot news to features. The successful candidate […]

Marketwatch seeks graphics editor

MarketWatch is looking for an energetic and seasoned visual journalist to run our photo/graphics desk out of New York or San Francisco. This new hire would shape the way we collect, design and publish art at MarketWatch from the ground up. The graphics editor would partner with our other graphics editor in assisting the newsroom […]

Marketwatch seeks editor of viral news

MarketWatch seeks an editor with an intuitive feel for the essence of stories and why people share them. This editor’s mission will be optimize our journalism for social media, and seize opportunities to jump on trending topics. The ideal candidate should be a web-obsessed storyteller with an interest in money, finance, and the power of […]

Marketwatch seeks transparency reporter in DC

MarketWatch is seeking a ‘transparency’ reporter to uncover the hurdles being placed on the individual investor and what, if anything, is being done to resolve them. The ideal candidate, based in Washington, will not just be on top of the latest developments at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and more from […]

Marketwatch seeks deputy personal finance editor

MarketWatch 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 climate […]

Marketwatch reporter leaving for National Journal

Eric Garcia, a reporter for Marketwatch.com in Washington, is leaving for the National Journal to cover politics. For Marketwatch, he has been covering the worlds of high-frequency trading, insider trading and other hot-button regulatory subjects. Garcia graduated in May 2014 from UNC-Chapel Hill, earning his bachelor’s degree in journalism with a focus in reporting, but […]

MarketWatch vs. Bloomberg websites

Kristina Zucchi compares for the Investopedia website the MarketWatch and Bloomberg websites in terms of markets coverage. Zucchi writes, “Unlike MarketWatch, Bloomberg has both a free public site and a pay subscription site for professionals. In this article we focus on the public site. Bloomberg tends to have a more targeted focus on the markets than MarketWatch, […]

Dow Jones to report subscription data audited by accounting firm

Dow Jones & Co. released Thursday global sales and subscription figures for its financial news publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Financial News and MarketWatch.com. Independently assured by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP UK, these figures capture the company’s global audience and will provide a clear and consistent measure for its digital business. Dow Jones will continue […]

MarketWatch.com seeks investing columnist

MarketWatch.com seeks a columnist who can write critically on all things investing – stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, and funds. The successful candidate will give strong and interesting opinions on investment strategies, academic theories and daily market news in an engaging way, free of jargon. Original research, using FactSet and other tools, is important. A flair […]

MarketWatch.com seeks fixed-income reporter

MarketWatch.com seeks a reporter to help cover the important fixed-income markets, including benchmark Treasurys, corporate bonds and bond funds. The ideal candidate has proven experience reporting in the fixed-income space and is good at cultivating sources and penning exclusive/breaking copy. Candidates will be able to articulate the nuances of yield curves and bond convexity for […]