Wall Street Journal adds people index
The Wall Street Journal began a people index in today’s newspaper. Like its popular company index, which tells readers what page a company is mentioned on in that day’s newspaper, the people index will tell readers when prominent people are mentioned in stories. The New York Times’ Katherine Seelye covered the change in today’s paper […]
Wall Street Journal tidbits from earnings release
Dow Jones released its fourth-quarter earnings today, and disclosed the following pieces of information about the Wall Street Journal: 1. Losses from the Weekend Edition of The Wall Street Journal, launched Sept. 17, were about five cents per share in the fourth quarter. 2. Advertising linage at the U.S. Wall Street Journal, including Weekend Edition, […]
Business journalists and numbers
Richard Holden, a former editor at the Wall Street Journal who is now executive director of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, has spent the past few years collecting examples from newspapers of how journalists improperly use numbers in their writing. He also teaches seminars across the country to journalists on how to better use numbers. […]
Wall Street Journal TV show on Fox debuts this weekend
Here is a snippet of the release: “The Journal Editorial Report, a production of The Wall Street Journal, will debut on FOX News Channel (FNC) on Saturday, January 21st at 11 PM/ET. The program will also run on Sunday at 6 AM/ET. “Hosted by Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot, the weekly half-hour program features newsmakers […]
Press release masquerading as a WSJ story
That’s the conclusion that Fortune senior writer Devin Leonard reached about the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the change in management at parent Dow Jones & Co. last week. “The newspaper read — and feared — by everybody in corporate America published the equivalent of a press release,” wrote Leonard. He added: “Here’s what you […]
More on Dow Jones shakeup
You know it’s a big deal in business journalism when Newsweek decides to cover the boardroom shakeup at Dow Jones, the parent of The Wall Street Journal. In the Jan. 16 issue, which is available online, writer Jonathan Darman has a couple of interesting points to make about the departure of CEO Peter Kann and […]
How will WSJ cover this executive compensation story?
I’m big on reading SEC filings, and the 8-K filed by Dow Jones disclosing the compensation of departing Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House is sure to draw a lot of attention as a follow-up to Tuesday’s major news of the management shakeup at the company. House, according to the filing, which was first […]
WSJ reporter leaving for proxy firm
Jonathan Weil, a Wall Street Journal reporter widely credited with being the first business journalist to question Enron’s accounting back before the energy company exploded, is leaving the newspaper to join Glass Lewis & Co., a San Francisco-based independent investment advisory firm and proxy advisory firm. Weil was covering financial and accounting fraud at the […]
More on Zannino
More important snippets from coverage of the change at the top at Dow Jones: 1. Richard Zannino, the incoming CEO of Dow Jones, told the Washington Post that he has no plans of getting rid of Barron’s, the company’s weekly business newspaper aimed at investors. The newspaper has lost 30 percent of its ads, according […]
Where does a daily paper run its stock story?
Having spent the last three days at my parent’s house in suburban Atlanta, I was able to read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on a regular basis once again. I worked on the business desk there from 1994-97, covering Home Depot and Coke. Not much has changed, but one thing that I did notice was that all […]
