Harwood joins CNBC as Washington correspondent
The Wall Street Journal writer John Harwood has been named CNBC’s chief Washington correspondent, effective Monday, according to TVWeek.com. “We expect John will use his contacts and his insights to effectively cover major stories coming out of Washington,” said David Friend, senior vice president of business news for CNBC. Harwood will continue to be a […]
Wall Street Journal online gets a facelift
Among the changes to the Wall Street Journal online are: “• Additional navigation. We’ve added new links on the top of the page and in the left-side navigation bar to My Online Journal, Research & Tools, Online Exclusives and Today’s Newspaper. “• A wider page with more information. We’ve taken advantage of the trend toward […]
Union attempting to organize MarketWatch employees
The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting Saturday that a union is attempting to recruit employees at Dow Jones subsidiary MarketWatch to join. Dow Jones is opposing the move. Reporter George Raine writes, “The number of staff members involved is small. About 210 of MarketWatch’s 300 employees at the company’s San Francisco headquarters and in bureaus […]
Ad sales up at the Wall Street Journal, Barron's
Dow Jones reported strong growth in ad sales at its business publications in February. Here is an excerpt from the release: “Advertising linage at The Wall Street Journal, including Weekend Edition increased 18.6% in February due to increases in classified, general and financial advertising, partially offset by a decrease in technology advertising. In the classified […]
The Wall Street Journal on the SEC's subpoenas
The Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial in Wednesday’s newspaper criticizing the SEC’s recent action to subpoena three journalists, including two — Marketwatch’s Herb Greenberg and Dow Jones Newswires’ Carol Remond — who work for the Journal’s parent company Dow Jones. The Journal writes: “As long as journalists at Dow Jones are honestly reporting what […]
Evidence of the Ridder family management acumen
If you have been following events in journalism lately, then you know that the once-venerable Knight-Ridder newspaper chain is considering bids to sell the company — in whole or piecemeal — to bidders who have until later this month to submit their best offers. The new issue of the Columbia Journalism Review has an analysis […]
Financial details of The Financial Times
Pearson Plc, the British-based parent of The Financial Times, reported Monday its year-end financial results, including details of the newspaper’s financial performance. In a combined Bloomberg News and Reuters report on the International Herald Tribune, this was reported: “At The Financial Times, sales were up 6 percent last year as the newspaper made a profit […]
"House" cleaning at the Wall Street Journal
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly states in this morning’s paper that some of the people leaving the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones are those that were close to former publisher Karen Elliott House, who left recently along with husband CEO Peter Kann. Kelly reports: “Most people are chalking up some of the high-level […]
Greenspan talking with WSJ reporter about book
Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan, who stepped down earlier this month, is talking with David Wessel, the Wall Street Journal’s deputy Washington bureau chief and author of the paper’s Capital column, talked about collaborating on a book, according to a Dow Jones news item. “We don’t have any formal agreement and won’t attempt […]
Dow Jones management shuffle continues
The new publisher of the Wall Street Journal is L. Gordon Crovitz. He is also becoming an executive vice president at Dow Jones and will oversee Barron’s and MarketWatch as well. Crovitz served since October 1998 as senior vice president of Dow Jones and president of the Electronic Publishing group, where he was responsible for […]
