WSJ names editors for real-time news desk
Wall Street Journal real-time news editor Steve Wisnefski sent out the following staff appointments: We are pleased to announce the appointment of editors leading coverage of world, finance, and business news on the Real-Time News Desk. These New York-based editors will help drive breaking news coverage in close coordination with news desks and bureau chiefs […]
WSJ names editors to oversee Latin America coverage
Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out the following message to the staff: Our integration of Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal takes another big global step forward today with the formal integration of our newsgathering operations throughout Latin America. I am pleased to announce that David Luhnow is appointed Editor, […]
Dow Jones auto reporter elected union VP
The nominations period for the 2013 IAPE Special Election has closed, and the Union Election Committee has declared business journalist Jeff Bennett the new vice president for Local 1096. Bennett, currently an IAPE location director in Detroit, was the only nominee. There were no nominations received for the other vacant positions on the IAPE Board […]
Jargon, alphabet soup and numeracy problems all bug style guru
Paul Martin retired at the end of July from The Wall Street Journal, ending a 53-year stint at the business newspaper. He had spent the last 27 years running its “Style & Substance” report, which dissected Journal stories for their word usage and phrasing. Martin, who joined the Journal in 1960 as a copyreader, became the […]
WSJ’s Baker on reducing size of “What’s News” column
Here is the memo that Wall Street Journal managing editor Gerard Baker sent out Monday to the staff on the size reduction of the front-page “What’s News” column: Even as we become daily a more digital newspaper, increasing the reach and impact of our reporting, analysis and comment online and on our various electronic platforms, […]
WSJ reducing “What’s News” on front page to one column
Azi Paybarah and Joe Pompeo of Capital New York write about a redesign at The Wall Street Journal that includes reducing the “What’s News” feature on the front page to one column. Paybarah and Pompeo write, “Top Journal employees first learned on a conference call earlier this week that the daily “What’s News” box, long […]
WSJ names new management reporter
Nikki Waller, management editor of The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement on Friday: I am delighted to announce that Rachel Feintzeig has joined the Management bureau to cover executives, managing and corporate leadership trends, along with the management consulting industry. Rachel joined Dow Jones in 2008 as a bankruptcy and restructuring […]
FBI finds problems in government’s system to prevent leaks of economic data
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has discovered vulnerabilities in the government’s system for preventing market-moving economic reports from leaking to traders before public release, reports Brody Mullins and Devlin Barrett of The Wall Street Journal. Mullins and Barrett write, “The black boxes are key to the government’s control of the data. Media firms in the […]
WSJ pulls Bitcoin story after investor denies involvement
The Wall Street Journal pulled a story about Bitcoin and Monday and issued a retraction after an investor denied involvement in the company. The correction states: Investor Joe Lewis isn’t investing in a bitcoin venture called Avalon and doesn’t lead a Zurich-based private-equity fund called the Phoenix Fund. An article on the supposed investment was […]
WSJ site blocked in China
John Russell of TheNextWeb.com reports that China has blocked access to The Wall Street Journal’s local language website, putting its in the same position as Bloomberg News and New York Times, which are also censored in the country. Russell writes, “A check for the Chinese version of WSJ — cn.wsj.com — on monitoring site GreatFire.org shows […]
