MarketWatch.com markets reporter McEnery departing

MarketWatch.com markets reporter Thornton McEnery is leaving the website. His last day is Friday. He is going to work on a project. McEnery has been at the website for the past year. He previously was a business reporter at The New York Post covering Wall Street. He had been at The Post since December 2019. Before the […]

MarketWatch.com seeks a money and markets reporter

MarketWatch seeks a reporter who can distill the moves and whims of the market into smart, punchy news stories and analysis. Though speed is important here, we’re most interested in candidates who can make the smart connections others miss, spotting trends, insights, and longer-term implications that will give our audience of investors and advisers the […]

DeCambre named new editor in chief at MarketWatch.com

Dow Jones & Co. CEO Almar Latour sent out the following on Thursday: Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Mark DeCambre will be our new MarketWatch editor in chief, starting March 21. In this role, Mark will be responsible for shaping coverage amid volatile markets and shifting reader habits, as well as finding innovative ways to serve a […]

Forbes Advisor hires Riquier to cover housing and mortgages

Forbes Advisor has hired MarketWatch.com reporter Andrea Riquier to cover mortgages and the housing market. She had been covering the housing market at MarketWatch.com but most recently had ben covering the exchange traded fund beat for the publication. Riquier has been with MarketWatch.com for nearly four years. Prior to that, she worked as a reporter for Investor’s Business Daily, Debtwire and Bloomberg. […]

MarketWatch.com seeks a personal finance reporter

MarketWatch seeks a reporter for its personal finance team who can 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 with boundless opportunity for bad decision making, answering it […]

MarketWatch.com seeks a markets reporter

Rising inflation, COVID chaos and economic uncertainty! What a time to cover financial markets! MarketWatch seeks a reporter who can separate the news from the noise and distill the break-neck swings in stocks and bonds into smart, punchy prose. Speed is important here, but we’re also interested in candidates who are accurate and can make […]

WSJ parent reports increase in earnings, revenue

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, reported its second quarter revenue rose 14 percent and its earnings rose 32 percent on circulation and advertising growth. The results are released as part of parent company News Corp.’s results. Revenue rose 14 percent to $508 million and earnings rose […]

USA Today hires Buchwald to cover personal finance and markets

Elisabeth Buchwald, a personal finance reporter at MarketWatch, has left to join USA Today to cover personal finance and markets. Buchwald joined MarketWatch in 2018 as an intern covering personal finance, economics and retirement. She has also interned at CNBC and written for the Business section of MediaFile about topics pertaining to the business of […]

MarketWatch.com hires Perkins as deputy editor of commerce

MarketWatch.com has hired Maddy Perkins to be deputy editor of commerce. She was director of editorial operations at Arizent. She has led in the establishment of best practices in editorial operations across all 10-plus Arizent titles, including American Banker, The Bond Buyer, Financial Planning and Accounting Today. She also has acted as editorial project lead on all cross-brand/cross-title editorial projects including but not limited to […]

MarketWatch.com columnist Gold retiring from business journalism

Howard Gold, who writes the “No-Nonsense Investing” column for MarketWatch.com, is retiring from business journalism after 38 years. He previously worked for Forbes, American Lawyer and Barron’s, among other publications. He has been at MarketWatch for the past 11 years. He plans to finish a novel he started in his 20s. Gold writes, “My passion […]