WSJ seeks oil and gas reporter in Houston

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a reporter to cover the oil and gas business, with an emphasis on the American shale boom. Fracking has transformed the U.S. into the world’s leading oil producer, but many of the companies behind the boom are struggling to make money. We are looking for an enterprising reporter […]

Kohen joins WSJ as arts and entertainment editor

Yael Kohen has joined the Wall Street Journal as an arts and entertainment editor. Previously, she was working at Refinery29 as an executive editor. She has also served as a contributing editor and associate editor at Marie Claire. Kohen also worked as a reporter for the New York Magazine and The New York Sun. Initially, […]

WSJ launches first brand campaign since 2017

The Wall Street Journal has launched its first major brand campaign since 2017. Sara Guaglione of Publishers Daily reports, “The WSJ teamed with creative agency The&Partnership on the ‘Read Yourself Better’ campaign, which debuted today with a 90-second national TV spot from director Juan Cabral. “The WSJ and The&Partnership have collaborated before on previous brand […]

WSJ Pro seeks a cybersecurity reporter

WSJ Pro, the part of The Wall Street Journal that provides specialized content for professional audiences, seeks a full-time reporter for its Cybersecurity team. The journalist in this exciting Pro Cybersecurity role will write about the corporate strategy dimensions of cybersecurity, covering events, writing spot news and developing longer-term analysis pieces. This reporter may occasionally […]

Pohle joins WSJ as reporter

Allison Pohle has been hired as reporter at the Wall Street Journal. There, she will be covering the young audiences’ team and working to create a new digital magazine while bringing the WSJ’s journalism to a broader audience base. She started Monday, according to her tweet. Previously, she was working as associate producer at WBUR […]

Union reaches tentative agreement with Dow Jones

IAPE 1096, the union that represents business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, sent out the following to its members on Monday: IAPE’s board of directors has approved a tentative agreement for a new contract that was hammered out Thursday night between Dow Jones representatives and our bargaining committee. Now the majority […]

Cybersecurity reporter Janofsky departs WSJ

Cybersecurity reporter Adam Janofsky is leaving The Wall Street Journal. Janofsky posted on Twitter that he plans to remain in technology reporting. “I started here as an intern and learned everything I know about journalism from the great reporters and editors here — many of whom I’ve been lucky to call friends,” he wrote. Janofsky writes about […]

WSJ seeks newsroom developer

The Wall Street Journal is seeking newsroom developers to join its strategy team. There are newsroom developer positions in three new departments being created: Young Audiences, a cross-disciplinary department that will create a media-agnostic digital magazine aimed at an audience in their 20s and 30s; New Audiences, a department that will create new products that […]

Dow Jones offers ratification bonus to union

Dow Jones & Co. has offered a ratification bonus of 0.5 percent of an employee’s salary to the union representing many of its workers. The parent company of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s is still offering a salary increase of 2 percent in 2019 and 2020 and 2.25 percent in 2021. The union […]

WSJ’s Zuckerman on the Quant Revolution

Wall Street Journal’s Gregory Zuckerman was interviewed by Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz on his new book, titled, “The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution.” The book will be released Nov. 5. Zuckerman is a three-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for business journalism and mainly writes about […]