Marketwatch.com seeks personal finance/real estate reporter
MarketWatch seeks an aggressive, Web-savvy reporter who can help 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, but this reporter will focus primarily on the single biggest financial decision most people make in […]
Interactive business news coverage about earnings
Glenn Hall, the editor in chief of Marketwatch.com, writes about the financial news site’s “Earnings Wall.” Hall writes, “This is one of our newest interactive features and it’s designed to let you drive the discussion about the top earnings in a real-time conversation with other MarketWatch users and our reporters and editors. “The concept is […]
Marketwatch deputy markets editor moves to Wall Street Journal
Polya Lesova, the deputy markets editor at Marketwatch.com for the past two years, is moving to the real-time news desk at The Wall Street Journal. She will start her new job on Monday. In her most recent job, Lesova assisted the markets editor with managing a team of 14 reporters and editors based in the […]
Marketwatch seeks Hong Kong-based financial reporter
MarketWatch.com is looking for a high-energy financial reporter to cover markets in the Asia-Pacific region. Based in Hong Kong, the ideal candidate will be able to write straight news and markets reports and have an interest in writing more conversational blogs and spot analysis, with an eye on the far-ranging themes that grip market participants, […]
Marketwatch seeks markets editor
MarketWatch.com is looking for an editor on its markets team based in New York. The ideal candidate will have a background in business journalism, preferably with some markets and investing experience, and an interest in a role that demands a range of skills. These include copy editing in a real-time environment, feature editing, assigning spot […]
Marketwatch hires reporter from Financial Times
Laura Mandaro, the markets editor at Marketwatch.com, sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday: Please welcome markets reporter Anora Mahmudova to MarketWatch’s New York bureau. Anora comes to us from the Financial Times, where for seven years she was an equities reporter covering Wall Street, market structure and IPOs, and an online […]
Marketwatch seeks media/technology reporter
MarketWatch.com seeks a New York-based reporter to cover technology and media, and the explosion of news that happens where the two intersect. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of building sources, generating market-moving scoops and providing trenchant analysis on the global media, technology, advertising and telecommunications industries. He or she will also […]
Marketwatch.com seeks technology editor
MarketWatch is looking for a technology editor to lead coverage of this key sector. The ideal candidate will be a leader who can write, edit and assign as MarketWatch covers the business, the technology and the market moves of major publicly traded technology companies. The editor will be responsible for setting the day-to-day coverage, working […]
How Marketwatch uses polls of its readers to report stories
A Marketwatch.com story last week about investing in the Twitter initial public offering originated from a poll that had run earlier in the week that allowed folks to leave an email address if they wanted to be contacted by a reporter. It’s a reporting tactic that can be useful during a time when all journalists, […]
Marketwatch’s Gallagher joining WSJ’s “Heard on the Street”
Liam Denning, an editor for the “Heard on the Street” column of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement Monday: We are pleased to announce that Dan Gallagher is joining the Heard on the Street column, writing financial commentary on the technology sector. Dan joins us from MarketWatch, where he has been […]
