Dow Jones CEO Lewis is leaving the company

William Lewis

Will Lewis is stepping down as chief executive of Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch.com and Barron’s, reports Anna Nicolau and Mark DiStefano of the Financial Times.

Nicolau and DiStefano report, “The British media executive is leaving ‘amicably’ from the company, according to people with knowledge of the decision. Mr Lewis did not respond to requests for comment.

“Mr Lewis has held the top job at the News Corp-owned financial news and data group since 2014, where he has also served as publisher of the Wall Street Journal, guiding the newspaper through an industry-wide shift towards online readership. Dow Jones, which includes its news wire and Barron’s, has reached 3.5m digital subscribers, including 2m for the Wall Street Journal, the company reported in February.

“In 2006, Mr Lewis became the youngest ever editor of the Daily Telegraph, where he oversaw the newspaper’s investigation into MP parliamentary expenses. He joined the Murdoch family-owned newspapers in 2010 as the general manager of News Group International.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.