Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones names new senior VP

Ian Weston, corporate development director of News International Ltd. in England, will becomeÂ senior vice president ofÂ special projects, for Dow Jones & Co.,Â CEO Les Hinton announced Tuesday.

Hinton said: “I am delighted Ian will be joining the Dow Jones team to help us shape our future. This is a time of exciting change for the company, and Ian brings years of top-level experience in the newspaper industry. He has been key to developing radical change in News Corporation’s British newspapers, in particular the company’s recent $1.3 billion project to install state-of-the-art printing presses.”

Weston said: “Dow Jones is a phenomenal company with great potential to grow and prosper in the years to come. I am honored to be invited to play a part in making it happen.”

Weston, 43, served as director of circulation and sales and head of business development at News International. Before joining News in 1995, he was a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

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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.