James Stewart is in demand

James Stewart, the former Wall Street Journal reporter whose “DisneyWar” book is one of the three Loeb finalists this year in the book category, is apparently being wooed by the new Conde Nast business magazine, and was recently courted by BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler, according to the New York Post’s Keith Kelly. Kelly writes, “Joanne […]

Wall Street Journal names new ME for Europe

The Wall Street Journal named Jesse Lewis as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, effective June 1, 2006. Lewis, 51, who has been deputy managing editor of the Journal Europe since August 2003, will have day-to-day responsibility for overseeing European and Middle East coverage and publishing the European edition of the Journal. He […]

Dow Jones industrial average celebrates 110th birthday

The Dow Jones industrial average turned 110 today. In addition to helping promote the company and the Wall Street Journal, it’s played an important role in evaluating the stock market. According to a press release put out by the Wall Street Journal’s parent, “‘The Dow’ is the world’s most frequently quoted and longest-serving market indicator […]

Loeb finalists named

The finalists for the Loeb Awards, administered by the UCLA Anderson School of Management, were named in a video conference on Monday by dean Judy D. Olian. There is no press release yet, and I did not catch all of the reporter’s names, but I did get all of the names of the newspapers and […]

Ad linage up at WSJ and Barron's, down for international

Dow Jones Inc. reported Wednesday afternoon that advertising linage at its flagship Wall Street Journal newspaper was up in April, and its Barron’s publication also saw an increase in advertising. However, advertising was down in the international version of the WSJ. Advertising revenue at The Wall Street Journal, including Weekend Edition, increased 8.3 percent in […]

WSJ's Steiger named new chairman of Pulitzer Prize Board

The Wall Street Journal’s Paul Steiger, the paper’s managing editor, has been named chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board, according to a Monday news release. Let’s hope that this means that business news coverage will get more attention in the naming of the awards. No business journalism stories won a Pulitzer this year. The release […]

SABEW members grill UnitedHealth CEO on stock options

UnitedHealth Group CEO William McGuire was grilled by journalists at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers annual conference in Minneapolis on Monday about his $1.6 billion in stock options. An investigation is trying to determine if the stock options were backdated to make them more profitable for the leader of one of the […]

Why Narisetti is leaving the WSJ

MarketWatch media columnist Jon Friedman recently interviewed Wall Street Journal Europe editor Raju Narisetti on why he is leaving the newspaper to go head a start-up business newspaper in India, his home country. Friedman writes, “Journalists in India, he points out with some measure of chagrin, give their customers a diet of spot-news stories but […]

WSJ Online celebrates 10-year anniversary

The Wall Street Journal Online is 10 years old, and the Web site is celebrating by making the site free for the next 10 days, according to a press release. This is a similar move to what fellow site Barron’s Online did earlier this year to try to get more subscribers. In a story on […]

The power of the Wall Street Journal's front page

TheDeal.com executive editor Yvette Kantrow weighed on on a Wall Street Journal story on Monday about a pending deal that Bear Stearns supposedly has in China. Kantrow notes that the story was being questioned later in the day by a Reuters report, but that many other media outlets accepted the story as the truth even […]