Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones journalists will start voting Thursday

Business journalists who work for Dow Jones & Co. properties such as The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch will vote whether to ratify a new contract with the company beginning Thursday, according to an e-mail sent to reporters and editors obtained by Talking Biz News.

The journalists — eligible members of the Independent Association of Publishers Employees in good standing on Sept. 28 — will receive their ballots by e-mail on Thursday.

The deadline to vote is 9 a.m. on Oct. 12. The ballots will be counted beginning at 11 a.m. that same day.

The union is recommending that its members ratify the contract, but Journal reporter Jim Browning stated last month that the contract was not the best deal that the journalists could have gotten.

Creating a sense of urgency is the fact that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will acquire the company by the end of the year.

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.