Marketwatch.com launches section on retirement
Marketwatch.com, the business and financial news site operated by Dow Jones & Co., announced Wednesday the launch of MarketWatch Retirement. Featuring news, advice and analysis targeted toward people saving for retirement, those who should be, and those already retired, the section brings together the expertise of MarketWatch’s retirement reporters and columnists, as well as coverage […]
Marketwatch.com experiencing technical difficulties
The Dow Jones & Co. financial news site Marketwatch.com went dark last night and is now back up and running, but experiencing some technical difficulties.
Krim named acting editor of Marketwatch.com
Raju Narisetti, the managing editor of WSJ.com who also was put in charge of Marketwatch.com when its editor David Callaway left for USA Today, sent out the following announcement on Monday afternoon: I am delighted to name Jonathan Krim as acting editor of MarketWatch.com, effective immediately. Jonathan is already intimately familiar with MarketWatch, having consulted with […]
Marketwatch.com editor Callaway says goodbye
David Callaway, the editor in chief of Marketwatch.com who is leaving to become the editor of USA Today, writes about the people he has worked with at the financial news site in his goodbye column. Callaway writes, “Through it all, the MarketWatch team around the world worked urgently to file headlines, break news, supply data […]
Dow Jones union: Layoffs are happening, end free labor
Steven Yount, the president of the union that represents business journalists working at Dow Jones & Co. properties, sent out the following email to the news staff on Wednesday: Since the first of the year, Dow Jones has laid off 62 of your co-workers (31 of them in the last week of June) and once […]
Marketwatch.com editor Callaway named editor of USA Today
David Callaway, the editor in chief of financial news site Marketwatch.com, has been named editor of USA Today. Marketwatch.com founder Larry Kramer was named the paper’s publisher earlier this year. A story on the USA Today site states, “‘Callaway will start the new job later this month. “”David is a distinguished journalist with a deep […]
Weidner on biz media and covering Wall Street
David Weidner, a Marketwatch.com Wall Street columnist and leaving New York for San Francisco, where he will begin writing a new column in a few weeks focusing on another aspect of finance. In his column, he offers advice and commentary for business journalists covering Wall Street: Timing is everything: Market journalism should be written in […]
Biz media more favorable toward Facebook than Google
Howard Gold writes Friday on Marketwatch.com that the business media has written more favorably about Facebook during its initial public offering than it did when Google went public. Gold writes, “And after reviewing many articles, I was surprised to find the tone fairly positive. Sure, writers have raised questions about Facebook’s valuation, its ability to […]
How to write for specific financial media
Joshua Brown writes on his Reformed Broker blog about what it takes to write for specific financial media outlets. Here are some of his examples: “How to write a stock article for CNNMoney or MarketWatch: Line up quotes from a bull and a bear on a given stock – give a paragraph to each to […]
Marketwatch columnist also a white nationalist, reports Business Insider
Joe Weisenthal of Business Insider is reporting that Marketwatch.com columnist Peter Brimelow is also a white nationalist who runs a website that argues against multiculturalism and immigration. Weisenthal writes that he has reached out to Marketwatch and its parent, Dow Jones & Co., for a response, but has yet to receive one. Weisenthal writes, “So […]
