Barrons.com undergoes redesign

Barron’s editor and publisher Edward A. Finn Jr. writes in the latest issue about a redesign of the business weekly’s Web site.

Finn writes, “You’ll find breaking investment news near the top of the homepage, and more important, a new feature that gives you Barron’s view on a top story each day.

“Written mainly by veteran Barron’s writer Tiernan Ray, ‘Barron’s Take,’ as we call it, will in effect put you inside our newsroom. In the past few weeks, Tiernan’s made important calls on Tiffany, Hewlett-Packard, Infosys and Bank of New York Mellon, to name a few. ‘Barron’s Take’ is a feature worth checking out, especially if you’ve ever seen an important investment story and wondered, ‘What are the folks at Barron’s thinking about this?’ The timing varies, but most days, you’ll find ‘Barron’s Take’ posted on the top of the home page by 1 p.m. It will be free for a limited time, then available only to subscribers of Barrons.com.

“The man behind ‘Barron’s Take’ and a lot of other improvements on Barrons.com is Greg Bartalos. Greg worked as a senior editor for Barrons.com from 2001 to 2005, before leaving for three years to work as news editor and assistant managing editor of Yahoo! Finance. We were delighted to have Greg rejoin us as editor of Barrons.com in January. He has been instrumental in putting Barrons.com closer to the news and in working with Barrons.com general manager Gail Griffin on the site redesign. In coming months, Greg will develop community aspects of Barrons.com. As a first step, subscribers will soon be able to post comments on Barron’s stories.”

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