News Corp. names new general counsel
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch sent out the following announcement to all company employees on Monday: I am pleased to announce that Gerson Zweifach will be joining News Corporation as Senior Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel on February 1 (press release attached). He is one of the country’s most renowned litigators and a […]
Pulitzer winner Blackmon leaving Wall Street Journal
Douglas Blackmon, a senior national correspondent at The Wall Street Journal and a Pulitzer Prize winner, will announce Monday that he is leaving the paper. Blackmon will be joining the University of Virginia. He will also work for the Washington Post, becoming a contributing editor working with the national politics team. At Virginia, Blackmon will […]
Reuters hires Pulitzer winner, deputy social media editor
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Steve Stecklow will join Reuters in London as a member of its investigations team, the news organization announced Monday. Stecklow, who early in his career was a Reuters stringer in Philadelphia, comes from The Wall Street Journal. This past year, he spearheaded a series that documented the use of Western and […]
WSJ.com head leaving for new job
Kevin Delaney, managing editor of The Journal Online — or WSJ.com, as it is better known — is taking a job at the Atlantic Media Company, reports Kara Swisher of All Things D. Swisher reports, “The move is a blow to the Journal’s online efforts, as Delaney, who got the top job in late 2009, […]
WSJ/Dow Jones names deputy Italy bureau chief
Alessandra Galloni, the Southern Europe bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday: We are very pleased to announce that Christopher Emsden has been promoted to deputy bureau chief in the joint Italy Wall Street Journal-Dow Jones Newswires bureau. As deputy to Alessandra Galloni, Christopher is stepping up […]
WSJ Europe circulation review called a “whitewash”
Roy Greenslade of the Guardian in London calls the Audit Bureau of Circulation review of The Wall Street Journal Europe’s circulation a “whitewash” that ignores its real issues. Greenslade writes, “It would appear that the ABC’s ‘thorough review’ was narrower in scope than the phrase suggests. The result: a limited, technical and equivocal finding. “It […]
Biz journalist Bailey hired as YCharts editor
YCharts.com has named Jeff Bailey as its editor, as the investor-information company moves to expand its news and content offerings. Bailey is a former editor, columnist and reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where he spent 20 years from 1983 to 2003, and also worked as a staff financial reporter at the New York Times […]
WSJ reporter Steel gets new job
Emily Steel, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal in the media and tech group, is now a social media editor at the business newspaper, where she will help shape the Journal’s strategy on Facebook, Twitter and the like. Steel tells Talking Biz News that she will also report out some digital journalism projects on […]
Top 10 biz journalism events for 2011
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE Here are the top 10 events in business journalism in the past 12 months: 10. Randall Lane’s hiring as editor of Forbes in August. The business magazine has undergone a design and conceptual overhaul under Lewis Dvorkin. Now it’s time for Lane to execute with improved content that will draw in […]
WSJ.com’s biggest day in 2011 was Jobs’ death
WSJ.com’s highest-traffic day this year, by visits, was Oct. 5, when Steve Jobs died, edging out Aug. 8, when U.S. stocks fell 7 percent. That’s according to a tweet from Zach Seward, editor of outreach and social media at the Journal. Seward also tweeted on Thursday that WSJ.com’s busiest month, by unique visitors, was August, which […]
