Dow Jones creates new publishing unit headed by Latour

DOWJONES_logo_Full-500 compressed Dow Jones, the financial news and information company within News Corp. responsible for The Wall Street Journal, has created a new publishing unit, reports Joe Pompeo of Politico.

Pompeo writes, “Dow Jones Media Group will include existing brands like the magazine Barron’s and the websites Marketwatch and Mansion Global. It will also explore the launch of new products, ‘assume an increased role in video and will lead on collaboration projects with News Corp.,’ according to an internal memo from Dow Jones CEO Will Lewis.

“The Wall Street Journal will not be included in the media group, reflecting a move to provide ‘autonomy,’ as Lewis put it, for the other publications.

“Dow Jones Media Group will be headed up by Almar Latour, a high-ranking figure in the Journal newsroom who will leave his post as the paper’s executive editor.”

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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.