MarketWatch.com sets monthly visitor record

MarketWatch.com, a Dow Jones financial news website, hit 33.3 million unique visitors in February, a record.

The previous record was 27 million unique visitors in one month. As recently as January 2016, it had 23.3 million unique visitors, which was then a record.

“So proud of the MarketWatch team for achieving an all-time audience record & thanks to our tens of millions of readers for your support,” said Dow Jones Media Group Publisher Almar Latour on Facebook.

MarketWatch’s success in February included coverage of a whistleblower’s claims about the CBOE Volatility Index, how people are walking into glass walls at the new Apple headquarters and whether the stock market crashed.

MarketWatch, which was launched in July 1997 and acquired by Dow Jones in 2005, has 55 editors and reporters. Jeremy Olshan has been the editor since 2014.

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.