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 […]
WSJ deputy bureau chief applauds cutting stock listings
David Wessel, the Washington deputy bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, applauded the moves by newspapers across the country to cut their published stock listings and encourage readers to get that information online in a speech at Yale University. Wessel, who writes a weekly Capitol column in the print edition of the paper, answers […]
Dow Jones still reporting losses from Weekend Journal
Dow Jones, the parent company of The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, reported its first quarter earnings on Tuesday and while profits rose due to accounting issues, the company said it was still losing money from the weekend edition of the Journal. The earnings release states, “Advertising revenue at the U.S. Wall Street Journal print […]
Wall Street Journal editor to head Indian start-up
When the Wall Street Journal reported last week that deputy managing editor Raju Narisetti was leaving the paper for a start-up publication, Talking Biz News was unable to report where he was going. Now, the information is available. Narisetti is becoming head of editorial for a new business newspaper starting in India by the Hindustan […]
Two senior Wall Street Journal editors leaving
Two senior editors of The Wall Street Journal are leaving the paper, Dow Jones & Co. confirmed Monday. Raju Narisetti, a recently appointed deputy managing editor, and Amy Stevens, editor of the Weekend Journal, will be working for separate start-up publications. An article about their departures can be found here. It does require a Wall […]
Analyst: Dow Jones won't be sold anytime soon
Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Rich Fine issued a research report on Wall Street Journal and Barron’s parent Dow Jones Inc. in which she said that the company, the subject of takeover speculation in recent years, is unlikely to be sold anytime soon because of the new management put in place, which is being given a […]
WSJ Report with Bartiromo is No. 1 biz show
According to a press release put out this morning by NBC, “The Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo” is the No. 1 business news show on television, according to statistics from Nielsen. The press release states that the show is “out ranking over 35 programs on CNN and Fox, among others. According to Nielsen […]
Wall Street Journal overseas to be "retooled"
More coverage from Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino’s remarks Wednesday at an investor conference in New York. The European and Asian editions of the Wall Street Journal will be “retooled” because of reader complaints after their conversion to tabloid format, according to a Reuters report. Reuters wrote, “Zannino, speaking at the Bank of America Media […]
Dow CEO: Ad linage at WSJ up in first two months
New Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino said Wednesday at an investor conference that advertising for the company’s flagship Wall Street Journal newspaper has been up 13 percent in the first two months. Dwight Ostricher of Dow Jones Newswire reports, “‘We took meaningful market share away from our primary print competitors in 2005 and so far […]
Could Google or Yahoo buy Dow Jones?
JupiterMedia CEO Alan Meckler muses online that eventually Google or Yahoo will need to have content on their respective financial information sites if they are to compete for the eyes of those who want that information. He theorizes that eventually that content could come from Dow Jones, parent company of The Wall Street Journal and […]
