Tag: Marketwatch

Nuggets about business journalism from the News Corp. filing

There are some interesting business journalism facts in the News Corp. filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission that will split its newspaper and media operations into a separate company. They include: WSJ.com, which offers both free and premium content, averaged more than 34 million visitors per month on average for the 12 months ended […]

Dow Jones thanks employees

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires, thanked every single one of its employees in a full-page Journal ad on Tuesday. The ad included all of their names.  

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 […]

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 […]