WSJ Cleared Over Europe Sales Fixing, Now Finger Points At ABC
The Audit Bureau of Circulation in the UK will not take action against Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Europe for a circulation-boosting pro…
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Charting WSJ Europe’s Circulation Over The Last Decade
Our analysis shows how The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Europe, which is being investigated for an alleged circulation “scam”, doubled it…
Three UK Papers Are Still Hooked On The Bulk Sales Drug
I’ve just returned from the the world editors’ forum in Vienna where delegates were intensely interested in the News International phone hac…
Updated: WSJ Europe’s Elaborate Plan To Boost Circulation
One of Rupert Murdoch’s most senior European executives has resigned following Guardian inquiries about a circulation scam at News Corporati…
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Updated: WSJ Europe Chief Langhoff Resigns Over Ethical Concerns
Wall Street Journal’s Europe publisher and EMEA managing director Andrew Langhoff is leaving the post after helping build out the title’s co…
WSJ Ups Europe Online Editor McIntosh, Adds More Video
WSJ.com Europe’s online editor Neil McIntosh has been appointed deputy editor of The Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) across print and digita…
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Dow Jones Preps New Foreign Exchange News Product
With most investors and traders connected to some computer practically every moment of the day, the major financial news services have been…
Dow Jones Reboots Financial News, Retains As Standalone Site
While Murdoch’s footsoldiers rush to charge for consumer news like WSJ.com does for biz content, and while WSJ.com itself continues its Euro…
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WSJ Adds Travel Booking Services To Its Wine Business
With advertising still struggling, the WSJ is expanding its commerce offerings by getting into travel services. The site, WSJ Travel, will s…
Print Roundup: WSJ Europe Goes Mobile; Evening Standard’s Homes & Property
Two more digital moves from printed newspapers today, one in mobile for the Wall Street Journal and one online for The Evening Standard:
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WSJ Closes Boston Bureau; Memo From Thomson
The Wall Street Journal is closing its Boston bureau, leaving in place an “investigative function.”
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) will keep its New…
@ AOP: Murdoch On Paywalls Is ‘The Flip-Flopper In Chief’
Paying-for-content was the hot topic at this year’s Association of Online Publishers summit in London on Wednesday, thanks to Rupert Murdoch…
Communacopia: Murdoch: We'll Start Charging For WSJ Mobile Apps
The Wall Street Journal is ready to start charging for mobile access on the Blackberry and iPhone, News Corp (NYSE: NWS). CEO and chairman R…
Industry Moves: WSJ Adds European Opinion Editor
The Wall Street Journal continues its European expansion from its new London HQ, moving its Global View column editor Bret Stephens to be de…
WSJ’s New Policy: Won’t Take Herd Embargoes
The Wall Street Journal has a new policy for its editorial staff, we have learned: it will not accept embargoes for stories, but will take e…
Industry Moves: Former Dow Jones Head Zannino Joins PE Firm CCMP
Former Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino has joined private-equity firm CCMP Capital Advisors. Zannino will be part of CCMP’s investment committ…
WSJ Asks iPhone App Users If They Would Pay
Rupert Murdoch has already said News Corp (NYSE: NWS) intends to charge “handsomely” for its WSJ iPhone and Blackberry apps eventually. How…
Will Dow Jones’ Payment System Be Expanded For Third-Party Content?
Updated: DJ has refused to comment on this.
Is *Dow Jones*, part of the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) empire, working on a payment system that wou…
Industry Moves: WSJ.com’s M.E. Latour To Head Asian Operations; Blumenstein To Replace Him
The Wall St. Journal announced several personnel changes this afternoon, including that Almar Latour, who has been managing editor of WSJ.co…
Paywall Partisan WSJ Launches Free iPhone App
The Wall Street Journal has launched an iPhone app and — strikingly for a company that safeguards the bulk of its online content behind a p…
WSJ’s Murray: Charging For Content Isn’t Just For Financial Papers; WSJ To Offer ‘Premium’ Service
As newspaper companies search for a magic formula for replacing declining online ad revenue with some form of paid content, the conventional…
WSJ.com Overhauls International Sites; ‘New Era’ For WSJ In Europe
Just in time for the continuing banking crisis, The Wall Street Journal this morning overhauled its overseas web play with the expected rela…
Dow Jones Says It Reduced Costs $100 Million In ’08, Promises $40 Million In Savings For H109
Perhaps trying to validate News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch’s earnings call line about “not tolerating any fat,” the Do…
Newspaper Roundup: Seattle P-I; Post-Dispatch; Dow Jones; Sun Times; Journal Reg; Warren Buffett
–Seattle P-I future uncertain: Seattle could be a one newspaper town, according to KING-TV, which was told by an unidentified source that t…
With Ad Spend Down, Financial News Sites Turns To Subscriptions, Partnerships To Boost Revenue
Although financial news providers’ audience numbers have shot up markedly since the global economic crisis erupted this fall, that hasn’t re…
@ FOBM: Economy Will Impact Billion-Dollar Deals; Old Media Should Buy New Media
When it comes to the shaky economy, the big question is how are deals getting done? A panel at FOBM offered some optimism, saying that compa…
Industry Moves: Venrock-eMusic CEO; ESPN; Linden Lab; Evri; WSJ; eBay
— Venrock-eMusic CEO: Outgoing eMusic CEO David Pakman is joining the venerated VC firm Venrock as a Partner in New York City, where he wil…
Wall Street Journal Gets Tributes.com-Powered Obits
You wouldn’t typically think of The Wall Street Journal for its obituaries, but if you’re going to be a national newspaper (albeit one that…
The New Dark and Brooding WSJ.com Is Launched
The new WSJ.com, its most radical do-over since the online site launched in 1995, is now live. We wrote about the relaunch in detail last ni…
WSJ.com Redesign and Relaunch Coming on Sep 16; May Start Charging Lot More For Tiers
The Wall Street Journal, which is basking in the glory of launching its luxury magazine supplement WSJ, also slipped in a reference to the r…
WSJ Laying Off 50 Staffers Amid Editorial Reorg; Plans To Add 95 Reporters In Coming Months
WSJ is cutting 50 editorial positions as it moves to reform editing functions across print, online and mobile, according to a staff memo wri…
Holiday Catchup Wire: Terra Olympics; Strike TV; Netflix Box; BigDownload; PwnorDie
Back after holidays, and some links that cropped up during the last week:
— Terra gets Olympic Internet rights: For Latin America, that is…
WSJ Makes More Editorial Leadership Changes; Creates Central News Desk
News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is continuing to remake the editorial and business leadership of the Wall Street Journal, and has now internally anno…
Updated: Wall Street Journal To Drop, Well, Wall Street
Updated: The full memo, below.
The Wall Street Journal is making the anticipated move from Wall Street/Financial Center, to midtown. About…
Industry Moves: WSJ; The Knot; Westwood One; Live Gamer
— The Wall Street Journal Digital: Sarabjit “Ruby” Walia has been named the network’s CTO, effective immediately. Walia will be responsible…
WSJ Plans Closer Ties With London Times; May Offer Business Tools
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is planning closer integration between its new Wall Street Journal website and its existing News International publica…
It’s Official: Brauchli Out At WSJ; Insists ‘Code Of Conduct’ Protecting Paper Has Been Enforced
Marcus Brauchli has resigned as managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, as expected following last night’s reports . The company sent ou…
The ‘New’ WSJ; Small Steps For Now; Expanded Opinion Section; Crovitz Column Debuts
On the surface, it looks pretty much the same, but today marks a key day in the Wall Street Journal’s assault on the NYT. I had to hunt for…
Industry Moves: PointRoll; DriverTV; Spot Runner; Bankrate; Baidu
— PointRoll: PointRoll has appointed Max Mead, Sanjiv Karana and Dea Lawrence to its senior management team. Mead has been named VP-busines…
Dow Jones Makes First Post-News Corp Acquisition: Buys Betten Financial News
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), now officially part of News Corp. has made its first acquisition after the deal: it has bought Dutch company Betten F…
Newspaper Roundup: DJ Settlement; Star Tribune; NCT Buyout; McClatchy Downgrade; Bruce Sherman
— Dow Jones: As tipped last month, the SEC has settled an insider trading complaint against ex-Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) director David Li and…
NWS: Murdoch Spells Out Value Of DJ Subscription Content, Boasts About Lower Dependence On Ad Market
In case anyone was holding on to the idea that News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch might pull back on his Davos comments…
Dow Jones Recommitting To Ventures Group Again; Will Consider Acquisitions
Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), which announced its Dow Jones Ventures group about two years ago and then for the most part went silent over it (exce…
Microsoft To Serve Ads On WSJ Digital Network
Right on the heels of its ad serving deals with CNBC and Viacom (NYSE: VIA), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) now has a deal to supply contextual and…
Murdoch: WSJ.com Will Not Go Completely Free; In Fact, Premium Pricing Will Rise
With any luck this will put an end to the “will he, won’t he” chatter about WSJ.com … WSJ reports that Rupert Murdoch told a panel in Davo…
Industry Moves Roundup: Dow Jones; eMusic
— Dow Jones: Following a string of exits over the past week, Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) has two additions from within new parent News Corp.: Mar…
Industry Moves: Dow Jones CMO Ann Marks Leaves As Well
The executive shakeup at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) continues, as it is in the second official day of life under News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) Ann Marks…
Dow Jones Shareholders Set To Approve Sale To News Corp.
Not that it was in doubt by this point, but Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) shareholders will accept News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) $60 per share offer for t…
WSJ.com's Subscribers Reach 1 Million Mark; How Much Longer?
The Wall Street Journal, part of Dow Jones, (NYSE: NWS) announced today on Sunday that WSJ.com has reached the 1 million paid subscribers ma…
NWS Annual Meeting: Murdoch: Digital Is The Real Opportunity At DJ
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) plans to expand the Wall Street Journal and create new ad opportunities but the real opportunity is in the “expansion…
Earnings: DJ's Zannino Uses Likely Last Call To Outline Progress; Hybrid Online Model Still In Play
One sure sign that life is winding down for Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) as a standalone public company: an uncharacteristically brief Q3 earnings c…
Earnings: Dow Jones Profit, Revenues Up In Q3; Online Ad Revenue Increased Only 7.8 Percent
Updated below to include more online ad detail: A very nice swan song of an earnings report from Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) today as it prepares f…
NWS-DJ: Tentative Union Deal; Monthly ‘Wealth’ Mag En Route
Looks like the strike chatter at Dow Jones was just that … the company has reached a tentative agreement with the union that represents ab…
NWS-DJ: WSJ Reporters Picket; Zannino Says Some Job Cuts "Unavoidable"
Various messages about jobs at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) Monday as several dozen WSJ reporters picketed and CEO Richard Zannino — whose current…
WSJ And TheStreet.com Ramp Up Digital Ad Moves To Better Balance Revenue From Subs
Whether or not WSJ.com’s (NYSE: DJ) business model remains subscription-based or is set free, revenue from advertising is becoming more cruc…
How NWS-DJ Deal Came About: The Detailed Chronology
As we mentioned in the previous post, the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) and Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) joint S-4 has a lot of details on how the merger ca…
News Corp's Buyout of Dow Jones: The Gory Details in S-4; 21 Other Companies/Parties Interested
News Corp (NYSE: NWS) filed an S-4 (proxy statement/prospectus) late today with SEC, which contains highly detailed description of the how t…
WSJ Merges Print and Digital Sales Teams
As expected, Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) has done a major reorg of its ad sales, creating a hybrid force of category experts, media specialists and…
WSJ's Sales Team Headed For Shakeout
To be expected with News Corp buyout, but this Crain’s story says the shakeup at Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) already happening, and there are signs…
News Corp's Buyout of Dow Jones Gets FTC Antitrust Approval
Dow Jones’ (NYSE: DJ) proposed acquisition by News Corp (NYSE: NWS) has passed one test: the Federal Trade Commission granted early terminat…
Murdoch Making Calls To Convince Departing WSJ's Reporters
Earlier this week we got the same exact tip, but weren’t able to confirm it…LAT did. Rupert Murdoch has called at least three reporters wh…
Industry Moves: DJ: New Advertising, Marketing VPs; Latour New Managing Editor, WSJ.com
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network: Matt Ellsworth joins as VP-marketing; previously he was advertising solutions manager for Yahoo Fi…
MarketWatch's New Community/News Sharing Site
Kinda interesting: a community news sharing and social networking section just launched on MarketWatch, now part of Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ). It…
Buffett Bought A Small 3 Percent Stake in Dow Jones In Q2
Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett’s holding company, bought a small 3 percent stake in Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) in Q2, as the negotiations with…
10-Q Watch: Dow Jones' Acquisition Price For eFinancialNews: $63 Million; IAC JV Coming Along
Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) filed its 10-Q late today with SEC, and not much new info on the digital side, besides some adjustment in the final buy…
If WSJ.com Was Set Free: The Numbers At Stake
Everyone and their mother in law has numbers proving one side or the other: whether making WSJ.com fully open, ad-supported instead of subsc…
NWS-DJ Roundup: Imported Publisher?; DJ Newswires; Edit Board
Imported publisher possible: Reports from both sides of the Atlantic that Times of London editor Robert Thomson will be involved in a Murdoc…
Interview: Gordon Crovitz, Publisher, WSJ & President, DJ Consumer Media Group
However he might feel personally — and he’s not saying as top execs try to maintain neutrality — Gordon Crovitz now is touting the potenti…
NWS-DJ: Memo From CEO Rich Zannino To DJ Staff
Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) CEO Rich Zannino reached out to his staff after the late-night agreement to merge with News Corp. You can read the full…
NWS-DJ: ‘Definitive’ Agreement In Place; Five-Person Edit Board
The definitive merger agreement is in with roughly 37 percent of the Bancroft shares voting in favor of the $5 billion deal. Some of the det…
NWS-DJ: Crovitz To WSJ Readers: Some Criticism Of News Corp. Reflects Bias I Hope Readers Reject
It’s not quite a manifesto but it is as clear a declaration of purpose as readers and staff of the Wall Street Journal could hope for at thi…
NWS-DJ: React, React Everywhere: Online Journal’s Future; Multiples Don’t Matter
Everyone has something to say about Rupert Murdoch and Dow Jones … some even stand out:
Larry Kramer, founder, MarketWatch (via Bits): A…
Lauren Rich Fine On NWS-DJ: The Devil You Know
Newspaper and internet analyst Lauren Rich Fine retired earlier this year after 19 years with Merrill Lynch. Today she takes us up on an ope…
NWS-DJ: Greenspan Makes Another Public Appeal
Entrepreneur Brad Greenspan wants DJ shareholders to know Rupert Murdoch isn’t the only answer. In an open letter, he outlines a Monday lett…
Updated: NWS-DJ Watch: Bancroft Voting Deadline Passes; Deal Still Uncertain
WSJ is reporting that the Bancrofts have until 5 p.m. Monday to tell the lead trustee how the various trusts will vote. As of late Sunday, i…
NWS-DJ Watch: Key Bancroft Faction Will Vote No; News Corp. Will Not Raise Bid
A couple of updates as time ticks by for a decision by the Bancroft family … WSJ reports that a key Bancroft faction will vote against the…
Dow Jones Looking To Buy Stake in Chinese Financial Site?
If the News Corp-DJ deal happen, this would have very interesting ramifications, but even without it, worth nothing: China Digital News repo…
News-DJ: Major Bancroft Member Opposes Offer; Decision By Friday; Sales Team Likes It
Updated below: Dow Jones’ fate could be sealed by Friday: Members of the Bancroft family will decide by then on selling the company to News…
Greenspan’s Still Trying on Dow Jones; Proposes New Plans For Digital Dominance
Say what you will about Brad Greenspan, his track record, his maverick personality, and his oddball partners on the Dow Jones bid, his thoug…
Earnings: Dow Jones Posts Lower Q2 Profits; Revenue Up 16.2 Percent; Director Resigns
In what could be its last earnings report before it becomes part of News Corp., Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) said its profits fell 26.5 percent, pos…
Dow Jones Board Votes To Recommend $5 Billion ‘Merger’ With News Corp.
The Dow Jones board would be “prepared to approve and recommend” a “merger agreement” selling the company to News Corp. for $60 per share,…
Dow Jones Says Tentative Yes To News Corp Bid; Bancrofts Approval STILL Required
Not that this was a surprise: News Corp. has reached a tentative agreement for the purchase of Dow Jones & Co. at its original $5 billion of…
NWS-DJ Watch: Bancroft Heir On DJ Board Tries To Block Murdoch Deal
Christopher Bancroft, one of the three Bancroft family reps on the Dow Jones board, is on what the WSJ calls “his own last-ditch, long-shot…
NWS-DJ Watch: Murdoch’s Not Very Sunny In Sun Valley
AP’s Seth Sutel got a usable comment out of Rupert Murdoch as the News Corp. chairman made his way at the Allen & Co. annual fete Sun Valley…
NWS-DJ Watch: Greenspan Bid Grows Curiouser And Curiouser; Burkle, EchoStar As Partners?
The enemy of my enemy is my friend … the old saying came to mind when I first heard that entrepreneur Brad Greenspan might be teaming with…
NWS-DJ Update: DJ Makes Last Push For Alternative Buyers; Meeting With Burkle
This WSJ report sheds a little light on the quick rebuttal to last week’s claim of a done deal between News Corp. and Dow Jones … The DJ f…
Dow Jones-News Corp Deal Not Done
Dow Jones has denied a Business UK report that said News Corp has agreed with the Dow Jones board to terms of a $5 billion bid for the compa…
NWS-DJ: Bancroft Lawyers Key: Editorial Agreement Detailed; Greenspan Spins
Bancroft trusts: WSJ explains the role the Bancroft trusts — and their lawyers — play in the sale process.
Editorial agreement:WSJ: The p…
NWS-DJ: Murdoch: Price Of Journal Is ‘$60 Plus Vitriol’; WSJ Staffers Report Late To Work In Protest
Another torrent of words on Rupert Murdoch but this time the News Corp. chairman was an active participant … Time’s Eric Pooley made the m…
Murdoch: No Plans To Raise Dow Jones Bid; Final Approval Soon
Why would he? They’re already salivating over $60 per share bid. Murdoch told Reuters that he had no plans to raise his $5 billion bid for D…
NWS-DJ: The Two Agree On Editorial Board
News Corp and Dow Jones board have come to an agreement on the make up of an editorial board that would oversee the Wall Street Journal foll…
Searching For Murdoch In Plain Sight
Thousands of words in the NYT’s two-parter on Rupert Murdoch’s business style and precious few of them really new. Anyone who is likely to c…
NWS-DJ Monday Developments: News Corp. Nears Dow Jones Editorial Pact; Bancrofts Still The Wildcard
WSJ has a blow-by-blow of the intense negotiations going on between Dow Jones and News Corp, in trying to nail down editorial protections fo…
Murdoch Close To Making Peace On Editorial Independence With Bancrofts: Report
Since Dow Jones sent Murdoch an editorial independence proposal Friday, much has happened, as News Corp. officials reacted coolly to the doc…
NWS-DJ: Brad Greenspan Auditions For Role Of DJ White Knight; Offers To Acquire 25 Percent
Nowhere on anyone’s list of possible suitors for Dow Jones, Brad Greenspan of MySpace early days’ fame is giving it a whirl. Greenspan is le…
NWS-DJ: DJ Statement: Board, Not Family, Will Take Lead With News Corp. From Here Out
A major switch in the way the possible acquisition of Dow Jones by News Media is being handled … For the past few weeks the Bancroft famil…
Industry Moves: Changes In DJ Digital; New GMs For Online Units; Molland Joins As SVP At Reuters
Some management changes in the Dow Jones consumer online team (not to be confused with the online editorial changes made recently): Maria Mo…
Pearson’s Les Echos Sale Fuels FT/DJ Speculation
Pearson’s likely sale this week of French newspaper Les Echos to billionaire Bernard Arnault has fueled speculation on whether its Financial…
Industry Moves Roundup: Sonos; Dow Jones Online; Warner Bros.; Valleywag; Crayon/Digitas
— Sonos: Digital streaming system developer Sonos has tapped former Sony executive Phil Abram as president and COO. Most recently, he serve…
More On MarketWatch Status
The exec changes announced today at the WSJ include Dave Callaway, editor of MarketWatch, reporting to Alan Murray, new WSJ executive editor…
WSJ Changes ‘Complete’ Print, Online Integration
The WSJ made its latest news exec re-org official today with an emphasis on completing the integration of print and online. (As we told you…
NWS-DJ: WSJ Newsroom Changes; Bancroft Editorial Board Proposal Headed To Murdoch
Ob-la-di, ob-la-da … While the Bancrofts refine a proposal for editorial independence, new managing editor Marcus Brauchli is asserting hi…
NWS-DJ Watch: Editorial Board Proposal; Shares Sold; Murdoch Advisor
In today’s installment, the Bancrofts and News Corp. still are looking for a way to make the concept of an editorial work for their differen…
NWS-DJ: DJ Board Approves Sweeter Severance; 160 Senior Managers Now Covered
If Dow Jones is sold, some 160 senior managers have extra protection. Until the board approved expansion of severance packages, only 25 exec…
NWS-DJ: Zannino’s Role; DJ Chairman; Philly’s Tierney?
Some of the NWS-DJ stories as pubs fill space and time waiting for the next step:
Neutral CEO: DJ CEO Rich Zannino tells USAT he hasn’t adv…
NWS-DJ: More From Murdoch: Would Keep Crovitz
WSJ.com has posted edited excerpts from a 90-minute June 1 Rupert Murdoch interview that was the basis for its lengthy June 5 front-page art…
Burkle Tries Again; Now Working With DJ Union On Bid Advisory; No Formal Bid Yet
Ron Burkle, the billionaire who lost out to competition in the last three big newspaper bids he did — Knight Ridder, Philadelphia Inquirer…
Murdoch Reject Bancrofts’ Independent Board Idea; Employees Union Considering Other Options
Updated below: Rupert Murdoch had a “constructive” meeting with the Bancrofts today on the future of Dow Jones, reports Reuters…this to th…
Murdoch Willing on DJ Concessions, But Not Too Much; Reuters Trustees-Type Structure Possible
Rupert Murdoch is willing to make concessions in his talks with Bancrofts on his bid for Dow Jones, but has limits, he said in an interview…
NWS-DJ: How Bancrofts Came Around; Meeting Scheduled For Monday
NYT and WSJ both have detailed stories on how the Bancrofts came around to at least be willing to meet Rupert Murdoch and consider other sal…
NWS-DJ: Bancrofts’ Shift Surprises; Murdoch Bid Seemed Stalled
A month ago, the news that Rupert Murdoch through News Corp. was willing to pay $60 per share to take over Dow Jones sent shock waves throug…
NWS-DJ: Bancroft Family Agrees Sale, Other Options May Be Best; Will Meet With Murdoch
The Wall Street Journal’s own story says it best: “Dow Jones & Co.’s 125-year history as an independent media company could be nearing an en…
@ D: We Live In Interesting Times
The start-studded D conference started this evening, with an intro by Gordon Crovitz, publisher of Wall Street Journal, who gets the award f…
DJ-NWS Watch: Key Shareholder Talks; Some Bancrofts Meet; Options Market Likes $65
Looking for easy answers on the News Corp.-Dow Jones front? Don’t read any further because we don’t have any. Rupert Murdoch’s offer of $60…
Some Bancroft Family Members To Meet Murdoch On Bid
Some Bancroft family members are planning to hold a private meeting Wednesday to discuss their options in the wake of News Corp.’s $5 billio…
Newspaper Roundup: DJ Bid; Gannett & McClatchy’s April Numbers; Monster Signs
Bunch of stories about the newspaper industry:
— Dow Jones shares fell through Monday after an analyst predicted News Corp.will soon drop i…
Dow Jones Board To Stay On Sidelines Following News Corp Bid
So says a WSJ story, quoting sources…the board met today for its regularly scheduled meeting, and discussed several issues, including the…
Murdoch Sends Letter To Persuade Bancrofts on DJ Bid; Assures Editorial Independence
Updated: The Bancrofts had a family conference call and are still not impressed, reports WSJ again. During the call, family lawyers and reps…
Effects of Thomson-Reuters on Dow Jones Newswires
WSJ has a good analytical piece on how Dow Jones Newswires, the low-profile but much more profitable unit of Dow Jones, could face tough com…
Industry Moves: Dow Jones Appoints ESPN EVP As Chief Revenue Officer For Media Group
Dow Jones has created a new role of Chief Revenue Officer for for its consumer media group (which includes WSJ in print and online) and has…
Murdoch: DJ $5 Billion Offer “More Than Fair”; DJ Shares Fall
In News Corp’s Q1 earnings call today (we have the earnings report here), CEO Rupert Murdoch said that the company’s recent offer to acquire…
WSJ April Ad Revenue Falls 12 Percent; Local Online Ad Rev Up 51 Percent
As Rupert Murdoch presses ahead with News Corp.’s offer to buy Dow Jones, the monthly ad revenue picture has made the primary part of the ac…
NWS-DJ: Sorkin Says Say Yes; Carr Says Don’t-Be-Fooled; Friedman Says CNBC.com Sucks
An interesting two days of NYT business columns:
— one on Sunday by the deals reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, who writes a rather extraordina…
NWS-DJ: Murdoch Woos; Some Investors Stew
Rupert Murdoch wants to meet with the Bancrofts as a group — accompanied not by his high-powered exec team, but by his high-powered adult c…
NWS-DJ: No Action By DJ Board
Information from a representative of the Bancroft family that a majority of voting power was against a sale to News Corp. left the Dow Jones…
NWS-DJ: DJ Says Majority Of Bancroft Shares Are Against Sale; Union Says It’s Opposed
In its second statement of the day, Dow Jones said a director who represents the Bancroft family has informed the board that “members of the…
NWS-DJ: Thinking It Through
New motto: no day is ever safely declared slow when Rupert Murdoch has money to spend. As we wrote earlier, Murdoch has wanted Dow Jones fo…
News Corp. Offers $60 Per Share For Dow Jones; DJ Evaluating Offer
News Corp. has made an unsolicited offered to acquire Dow Jones at $60 per share …. CNBC, which has a relationship with DJ, first reported…
Earnings: DJ 1Q07 Online Ad Revenue Up 30 Percent; Change Pushes WSJ.com Circ Up 20 Percent
WSJ.com is reporting a 20 percent increase in paid subscriptions thanks to a change that takes into account the online portions of a $99 one…
Another Launch Today: AllThingsD, From WSJ
Clarification: The site isn’t launching today. We’ll update you more when we know more.
Portfolio isn’t the only thing launching Monday…a…
Dow Jones Buys EFinancial News For $51.6 Million
Certainly not in the Google-DoubleClick range, but an interesting deal completed by Dow Jones, as expected: it has bought UK-based financial…
Dow Jones Preparing Buy London’s eFinancialNews For $53 Million: Report
Dow Jones is set to acquire London-based investment banking newspaper Financial News for approximately $53 million, according to Telegraph U…
Updated: Francisco, MKTW and DJ Draw Attention For Reporter’s Role In Start-Up; Leaves MarketWatch
Updated: Francisco is leaving MarketWatch after this fracas…she has written her hurriedly-done last column for the site. She says in the c…
Industry Moves: McPherson To Chair Dow Jones’ Board Of Directors; Brock, Sagan Named To Board
The Dow Jones board of directors will name M. Peter McPherson as chairman of the board on April 18, when the company holds its annual shareh…
@ SIIA: Zannino Keynote Video
Rich Zannino, CEO of Dow Jones, gave the opening keynote at SIIA held last week in NYC (Staci covered it and moderated a panel as well).
Bel…
@ SIIA: Dow Jones, Deals & More
An excellent line-up today but sad to say I had to skip out when I lost a skirmish in the winter cold war. I’ll write up my notes on DJ CEO…
Earnings: DJ Continues Move Away From Print Reliance
Last year, Dow Jones reorganized to match its goal to move from am unhealthy reliance on print to what CEO Rich Zannino described again duri…
Earnings: DJ 4Q06: Online Ads Up 23 Percent; WSJ/Barron's Online Subs, Revenue Up
Dow Jones (NYSE: DJ) showed improvement in what turned out to be a busy fourth quarter — acquiring the rest of Factiva, selling some region…
Dow Jones Restructuring Enterprise Group; Lays off 98 Employees
Updated: The company is eliminating 98 jobs…this included management roles, and 62 were layoffs while the rest were open positions.
Dow Jo…
Unboxing the New Wall Street Journal
Kind of an inside joke..those you Engadget and Gizmodo readers are aware of the gadget unboxing videos…plenty of them here on YouTube. Now…
WSJ In Wonderland: Print Shrinks; Online Grows
Today marked the much-touted relaunch of the print WSJ and corresponding enhancements at WSJ.com, concrete acknowledgment that at the highes…
Dow Jones Finds Online Valuations Too High; TheStreet.com Hasn’t Scaled Enough
Dow Jones is looking for more MarketWatch-like acquisitions…this much is public, as WSJ publisher and Dow Jones EVP Gordon Crovitz said at…
WSJ Unveils Sleeker Print Look, Some Online Plans; Preview Of Crovitz Mixer Q&A
Dow Jones took the latest steps today in the elaborately choreographed redesign of the Wall Street Journal print edition and complementary o…
Dow Jones Retools: Newswires To Handle Breaking; WSJ.com Reporters To Focus on Blogs/Podcasts Etc
This is the first batch of changes in Dow Jones sprawling news gathering operations across various properties, following the re-evaluation o…
DJ-Brightcove To Develop Media Players For Publishers; Partnering On Video Channels
Dow Jones is officially announcing the launch of an ongoing video channel with Brightcove and expanded original video content. The channel,…
DJ Has Deal To Sell Six Community Papers For $282.5 Million
Dow Jones’s decision to sell some of its Ottaway community papers is paying off … Community Newspaper Holding, Inc. has agreed to buy the…
Dow Jones Shareholder Plans Sale
One of Dow Jones’s top shareholders is selling shares.
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal said Monday that a trust established b…
This Just In: Bloomberg LP Not Being Sold– Not Now, Anyway
Bloomberg employees got their own breaking news Wednesday: a statement from founder NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg that “while I have recently…
Earnings: DJ 3Q06: Online Continues To Help Offset Print Rough Spots
Online was certainly the bright spot in Dow Jones’s better-than-expected third quarter. Advertising revenue surged 12.4 percent despite a sl…
Industry Moves: New EVP/CFO For Dow Jones; Yahoo UK MD Leaving For Accel
Couple of industry moves of note:
— William B. Plummer is joining Dow Jones as EVP and CFO effective Sept. 5; he is leaving Alcoa, where he…
Industry Moves: Gordon McLeod Leaves Time Inc. Interactive; Will be President, Dow Jones Online
Updated: You’re reading it here first … Gordon McLeod, GM-Time Inc. Interactive, is joining Dow Jones as president of Dow Jones Online, wh…
Earnings: DJ Improves Results Overall For 2Q06; Online Up 23 Percent
Work in progress. Dow Jones (DJ) turned in a good report for 2Q06, earning 34 cents per diluted share compared to 1 cent per diluted share…
Industry Moves: DJ’ Online Ad Head Leaves; New VP & Exec Director Appointed
This is not connected to new news strategy rethinking project at Dow Jones, but forms part of the overall changes at the company, especially…
Dow Jones Names Paul Ingrassia VP for News Strategy; Optimizing Various News Operations
A strategic new position at Dow Jones, aimed at developing synergies with various operations: it has named Paul Ingrassia as VP of news stra…
Industry Moves: Ann Sarnoff To President, Dow Jones Ventures
Ann Sarnoff is joining Dow Jones in the newly created position of president, Dow Jones Ventures. Her mission: expand the reach of Dow Jones…
WSJ 3.0: Print-Online Hybrid; Print More For Analysis
Yep, that’s the new project on at Wall Street Journal…WSJ 3.0 is the new version of the print newspaper to come out by next year, will be…
WSJ.com Turns 10; Celebrates Decade Of Pay With Free News
Dow Jones is hosting an open house May1-10 at WSJ.com to celebrate the site’s tenth anniversary; the actual anniversary was April 29. As an…
Earnings: DJ Q1 Call: Zannino: Barrons.com Subs Prove That “Users Will Pay For Valuable Content”
Full revenue was up 26 percent for Dow Jones Online, advertising revenue was up 26 percent and circulation was up 29 percent for Dow Jones O…
Earnings: Dow Jones Online Ad Rev Up 26 Percent In 1Q06; WSJ.com Down Slightly To 761,000 Paid Subs,
Dow Jones Online continues to contribute to the Dow Jones bottomline. The company’s 1Q06 revenue was $452.2 million, up 9.7 percent over the…
Dow Jones Unlikely To Be Sold: Analyst
So says Merrill Lynch analyst Lauren Fine, in a research note today..she reduced her rating on the stock to “sell,” citing a high price for…
Dow Jones Online GM Nathan Richardson Leaves
Nathan Richardson, the senior VP and GM of Dow Jones Online, looking after all the consumer online properties at DJ, has left the company, a…
WSJ.com Redesign Kicks In; More Emphasis On Personalization
I’m still feeling my way around the new look but the upshot is more emphasis on the personal experience and online exclusives along with a w…
Dow Jones Re-org: The Morning After
Just getting a chance to scan the react to DJ’s re-org. A thank you to John Blossom for a good synthesis of my interview with DJ CEO Richard…
Dow Jones Re-org: Our Coverage
— Dow Jones Re-org: Interview: Rich Zannino, CEO; Audio
— Dow Jones Reorg: Crovitz To Lead New Consumer Media Group Including WSJ
— Dow…
Dow Jones Re-org: Interview: Rich Zannino, CEO; Audio
[By Staci D. Kramer] Dow Jones CEO Richard Zannino made some time for a solo interview from his office late this afternoon. We covered a lo…
Dow Jones Reorg: Crovitz To Lead New Consumer Media Group Including WSJ
Updated: Dow Jones is reorganizing scant weeks after Richard Zannino succeeded Peter Kann as CEO. The move shifts from organization by distr…
Dow Jones Re-org: Hart Moves To DJ From Factiva; Will Head Enterprise Media; Wilcox To Lead Communit
Enterprise: Clare Hart, the well-regarded CEO of DJ-Reuters JV Factiva, joins Dow Jones March 1 as EVP, president of the DJ Enterprise Media…
Dow Jones Reorg: New Consumer Media Group Must Swing From Red To Black
From a memo sent to staff today by Gordon Crovitz (newly minted EVP, president of Consumer Media and publisher, WSJ Franchise) laying out so…
Dow Jones Re-org: Staff Changes: Larsen, COO, Consumer Media; Steiger Adds Online
Gordon Crovitz isn’t the only one changing jobs. Sticking just to the Consumer Media Group, here are some of the key staff moves, many meshi…
Googling The Street: What Goes Up Etc.
: Just in time for Barron’s week-long open house (surely a coincidence) — a cover story about Google’s falling stock price. Before the arti…
Dow Jones Launches DJ Labs R&D Unit
A very energetic session this morning at the Media Dealmakers conference in NYC today, and on a panel, Gordon Crovitz, president of the Dow…
@ SIIA Info Industry Summit: Interview: Neil Budde, GM, Yahoo News; Audio
[Staci D. Kramer] Neil Budde helped lay the foundation for the Wall Street Journal’s subscription site; for the past year, he’s been on the…
Dow Jones Earnings: Some Details From Conf Call
The Internet Stock Blog people are making things so much easier for us with the conf call transcripts (well, except that for us the transcri…
Aftermath Of Barrons/WSJ Online Subscription Split
Because I spend so much time dealing with the online side of Dow Jones, I knew the daywas coming when, as an Online Journal subscriber, I’d…
Incoming WSJ CEO Stresses Net As Future; Says MKTW Exceeded Expectations
Fortune’s Devin Leonard interviewed incoming CEO Richard Zannino:
— “I think the future structure for us will have to be more of an uber-Wa…
DJ Splits Barron’s Online, WSJ Online Bundle
We reported last June that Gordon Crovitz, president of Dow Jones Electronic Publishing, said the company would cross-sell instead of bundle…
More On Exec/CEO Moves At Dow Jones
What does Rich Zannino’s promotion mean for Dow Jones? For one,openings in the CFO and COO department, both jobs he holds now. For one, a…
Industry Moves: Dow Jones Names Zannino As New CEO
The leadership speculation at Dow Jones is finally over, at least for now: the company has named its current COO Richard Zannino as its new…
Watching MarketWatch’s Numbers
This is something that has been puzzling us too for a few months now…about three months ago we received a tip from someone in the media in…
Media Executive Interview Series: Gordon Crovitz, President, Electronic Publishing, Dow Jones
We’ve recently launched a new monthly media executive interview series. This is the fourth one…the archives are here. Dow Jones might have…
WSJ.com, LexisNexis Form Exclusive Law Firm Distribution Pact
A good example of the constant search for incremental income … later today, LexisNexis and WSJ.com are scheduled to announce that LN will…
Crovitz: WSJ.com Trying To Get Search Juice Without Disrupting Pay Model
Roving correspondent Rex Hammock reports from the American Business Media Top Management Meeting in Chicago, where a question from him about…
Industry Moves: MarketWatch To Appoint New GM
MarketWatch, now part of Dow Jones, will appoint Maria Molland as its general manager. Molland comes from Yahoo where she was director of bu…
WSJ.com Opens Up Site For One Week
Following a similar experiment last year in November, Wall Street Journal Online is doing an “open-house” again: opening up its subscription…
Online Journal’s Paid Circulation Would Put It In Top Five U.S. Newspapers
A chart (pop-up) in my inbox from Gordon Crovitz, who heads the Dow Jones Electronics Publishing unit, puts the Online Journal’s sub numbers…
Earnings: DJ Electronic Publishing Rev Up 30.1 Percent For 3Q05; WSJ.com Hits 764,000 Subs
Updated to include earnings call: Spurred by the MarketWatch acquisition and strong showings across other properties, the Electronic Publish…
MarketWatch Launches Online Rebranding Campaign
MarketWatch is shifting its online message from “The Story Behind The Numbers” to the more consumer-oriented idea that investing can be easi…
WSJ.com Signs Deals With International Papers
The Wall Street Journal has unveiled partnerships with major European and Asian newspapers that will see their content featured on WSJ.com..…
Print, Online WSJ Will Be More In Tune After Design Changes
Updated at 11:17 p.m. Eastern: The print Journal will be linked more tightly to the Online Journal as part of a massive redesign slated for…
Online Journal Weathers Price Increases
Steve Klein’s lament on the rising cost of the Wall Street Journal Online set off an alarm bell for me. I wrote last April that a price incr…
WSJ Correction Acknowledges paidContent.Org’s Report
It took the better part of a day but the Wall Street Journal has issued a correction and amended the story that made it seem as though the…
WSJ’s New Weekend Edition
Wall Street Journal’s new weekend edition came out yesterday…they were giving away free copies all over town here in Santa Monica. A mild…
When Content Is Worth A Fee
I happened across a comment from Steve Rubel about considering dropping his subscription to WSJ.com within a day of renewing mine. We subscr…
WSJ.com Complimentary At T-Mobile Hotspots
The Wall Street Journal Online has done a smart deal with T-Mobile, to offer complimentary access to its subscription site through T-Mobile…
More on MarketWatch Valuation
In Dow Jones’ latest 10-Q, linked above, some more good stuff on its January buyout of MarketWatch, and the valuation details. The total pur…
Credit Where Credit Is Due
Updated: WSJ made a correction in their story, here.
While I was on the last swing of my road trip, Rafat realized that one of the postings…
Earnings: WSJ Online Subs Up 8.8 Percent Over 2Q04; Electronic Publishing Outearns Print
The Wall Street Journal Online continues to grow its sub base, up 8.8 percent to 744,000 in 2Q05. You won’t see this in the earnings release…
Dow Jones To Sell Off Its CNBC International Stake
Nothing much to do with online, but interesting nonetheless: Dow Jones will sell off its 50 percent stake in both CNBC Europe and CNBC Asia…
Dow Jones Extends Times Square Zipper Lease For 10 Years, Now Features Online Journal
Blending historic technology with today’s headlines, Dow Jones extended its Times Square zipper lease with OTS Signs for 10 years through 20…
WSJ Expands Archive Access
Interesting note from The Wall Street Journal Online in my inbox tonight: online subscriptions now include access to all articles for the pa…
Industry Moves: Nathan Richardson Leaves Yahoo, Joins Dow Jones As SVP & GM, DJ Online
Dow Jones is on the verge of announcing the appointment of Nathan Richardson, till now GM of Yahoo Finance, as GM of its web sites: Wall Str…
Barron's Online To Become a Separate Subscription Product Next Year
That’s what Gordon Crovitz, head of electronic publishing at Dow Jones, said today at the NAA mid-year review. “We will seek to cross sell B…
MarketWatch Hosts Premium Content Open House Through Friday
Most people probably think about the ad-supported side of MarketWatch when it comes to content; after all, that’s the primary reason Dow Jon…
Dow Jones Settles In At MarketWatch
Dow Jones is expanding ad inventory and co-branding options at recently acquired MarketWatch with new sub-channels (Industries, Life & Money…
WSJ.com Appoints New “Free Editor”
(via FishBowl NY) The Wall Street Journal Online is getting serious about opening up more content to attract more subscribers, or at least b…
ContentBiz2005: Give Away, and for How Long?
[reporting by Dorian Benkoil]
One of the big questions at subscription publications
– including some I’ve handled – is whether to give the
s…
WSJ Europe, Asia Editions To Go Tabloid, Add Emphasis On Online Coverage
Serious changes in store for the Europe and Asia editions of the Wall Street Journal. This fall, the editions will switch to tabloid format…
DJ Ripe For Picking?
As my mother might say, take the needle out of your arm. A sale or buyout bid isn’t completely impossible — we never say never here at paid…
MarketWatch Sued for Review of Viacom Offer
(reg. req.) As is usually the case with every merger or buyout of a dotcom these days, MarketWatch is being sued by a shareholder seeking th…
WSJ.com Open For This Week
WSJ.com has running it “open house” this week…and runs until Nov 12. The open site is being sponsored by Adobe and Nokia, among others……
Viacom Interest in MarketWatch is Official
In an SEC filing today, Viacom “anticipates” making an offer to acquire MarketWatch’s outstanding shares. In typical SEC-ese, the company ex…
Yahoo Emerges Top Bidder in MarketWatch Race
After NYT reported last week that Dow Jones is the leading contender for the race to buy out financial news and info site MarketWatch, The D…
Alan Meckler: Why MKTW is Selling?
From the master of selling out at the right time, on why MarketWatch is considering selling at this point: “While Marketwatch revenues have…
More on MarketWatch’s Possible Sale
Some analysts weigh in on the possible MarketWatch sale (see the dedicated company section for more news on this): John Tinker, an analyst w…
Thomson Deal Still Standing At MKTW
MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer had no comments to offer on the NYT story (see the series of posts below)…
He did, however, tell me in an e-…
MarketWatch’s Q3 Profits Increase
MarketWatch Inc. said its Q3 net income more than doubled amid growth in online ad revenue and integration of its acquisition of Pinnacor. I…
Synergies Between Dow Jones and MarketWatch
Just some stream of consciousness thoughts on the potential bid for MarketWatch (read below): As the NYT story says, DJ has some good synerg…
MarketWatch Up for Sale
(reg. req.)
Developing story: Wow…this one came out of nowhere. A week after MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer guest blogged on my site, comes…
Thoughts on Other Bids For MKTW
Some more instant thoughts on other potential bidders for MKTW (see stories below):
— FT (Pearson): Already own part share in MKTW. Would g…
WSJ.com Considering Ad-Supported Site?
WSJ.com will open up its entire site for a week, in an effort to give non-subscribers a taste of the content..that was revealed last week. S…
Kramer: Why We Dropped The Dotcom
MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer on why the company dropped its dotcom moniker two months ago: “We had several reasons for making the change, no…
Kramer on Content, Tools, Speed
MarketWatch CEO on content tools, speed as a tool, OPA etc…
Larry Kramer: Competing In The Financial Info Market
MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer: “I do believe we are in the sweet spot of this market because we write business and financial news for a broad…
WSJ.com To Open Up Site For One Week
That’s the news bit coming out of the OJR story (also linked below): WSJ.com will also open up the entire site for five days starting Novemb…
MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer: Broadband And Content’s Future
MarketWatch CEO Larry Kramer in ContentNext Series: “Television is a point-to-multipoint broadcast medium, which lends itself to appointment…
Up Next, Larry Kramer, CEO, MarketWatch
Up this week in ContentNext Series, Larry Kramer, founder and CEO of Marketwatch Inc, the financial news and information company. This is mo…
WSJ.com Susbcribers Up
Well, I’ve covered the flatline growth of WSJ.com is detail in the past, but in Q3, the numbers have perked up: paid subscribers to The WSJ.…
The Opening Up of WSJ and Economist
John Battelle says that WSJ.com and Economist.com (and by extension their print versions) are irrelevant because they don’t allow deeplinkin…
Redesigned CBS MarketWatch Features More Prominent Ads
CBS MarketWatch put on a brand new, advertiser-friendly face today, with more prominent display of rich media advertising and of content.
Th…
WSJ.com & ConsumerReports.org To Share Content
Two of the largest paid subscription sites, WSJ.com and ConsumerReports.org, have announced an agreement to share content…
CBSMarketWatch Co-Founder Named CEO Of China’s Red Mushroom
Though it is not clear from the story, I’m supposing Bill Bishop, currently the EVP & GM at CBS Marketwatch, will leave…he has been named…
We’re Back, Baby
Online media, that is…and there’s stellar pace ahead in Q2…”We all have some media share to take, and then maybe we can take that victor…
MarketWatch.com Drops The Dotcom
(second item) Financial info provider MarketWatch.com has dropped the dotcom from its name: it quietly voted at a board meeting this week to…
WSJ.com Gives A Peek Through Google News
WSJ.com has started opening one 1-2 stories a day, for complimentary access. These couple of stories are being indexed by Google News…
Goo…
MarketWatch’s Earnings Increase; Ad Revenues Shoot Up
MarketWatch has reported net revenues for Q2 at $20.2 million, compared to $11.1 million for the same period a year ago. Net income was $1.4…
Industry Moves: CBS MarketWatch’s Editor Promoted To VP
There’s some furious activity going on at CBS MarketWatch, as it is gearing for a September launch of the MarketWatch institutional news ser…
What’s Wrong With WSJ.com And DJ?
I won’t say much, but let the numbers do the talking: Dow Jones came out with its Q2 earnings numbers, and its consumer electronic publishin…
MarketWatch.com Hires For Thomson Partnership
Financial news and info provider MarketWatch.com is on its way to launching its formal partnership with Thomson Financial…it has announced…
Industry Moves: MarketWatch.com Appoints Sonostar Ventures Chairman David Moore to its Board
MarketWatch.com has appinted David Moore, chairman of Sonostar Ventures, to its board. Moore is the latest independent member to join the Ma…
MarketWatch Acquires PlanAnalytics
MarketWatch.com, the financial news and info provider, has PlanAnalytics, a financial services tools company based out of Mendota Heights, M…
Growth Rate For WSJ.com Falls Down Again
As Dow Jones doesn’t break down numbers in its electronic publishing group, it is hard to get a handle on the revenues of its website, alone…
DJ Newswires Off Yahoo News; WSJ.com Back On
As the trend is going these days, more and more content providers on Yahoo News are either taking off their content, or opting to only let n…
SEC Subpoenas Trading Records Of Four MarketWatch Executives
MarketWatch.com said the SEC has subpoenaed stock-trading records of four of its executives, including its CEO and its editor-in-chief, as p…
Revenue Science Launches Audience Search With WSJ.com
Revenue Science rolls out Audience Search, a beefed-up behavioral targeting tool that it says will help online publishers create their own a…
Thomson and MarketWatch.com Partner on News Service; Reuters Not Happy
MarketWatch.com has tied up with B2B giant Thomson Financial, a unit of Thomson Corp, to develop a customized news service branded Thomson O…
CBS MarketWatch Chief To Helm OPA
The Online Publishers Association today named Larry Kramer, CEO of CBS MarketWatch.com, as its new chairman. Kramer succeeds Christopher Sch…
Dow Jones Buys Alternative Investor Group for $85 Million
Dow Jones has made its biggest play yet in the B2B information market…it has bought out the Alternative Investor Group, part of the Wicks…
MarketWatch Plans Spot Checks Of Employees’ Portfolios
In light of the recent fiasco with its founding editor Thom Clandra, CBS MarketWatch is requiring all employees to register their stock trad…
MarketWatch.com Net Income Rises
(Conference call at 11 AM EST today…interesting to listen to, in light of Thom Calandra’s resignation last week) MarketWatch.com’s Q4 2003…
WSJ.com Subscribers Increase by 3,000 in Q4, 2003
As Dow Jones doesn’t break down numbers in its electronic publishing group, it is hard to get a handle on the revenues of its website, alone…
CBS MarketWatch’s Founding Editor Resigns After SEC Probe
(Updated: MarketWatch’s stock dropped about 10 percent in late trading after the news) Shows why it is very important to develop more regula…
MarketWatch And Pinnacor Merger Complete; Form New Unit
MarketWatch.com has formed a new organizational unit, MarketWatch Information Services, out of the innards of its own licensing business and…
Baylor University Students Given Intranet Access to WSJ.com
Students at Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business now have direct access to WSJ.com through the school’s intranet….
WSJ Takes Broader View of Circulation with Online Inclusion
Mark Glaser has a detailed look at the recent WSJ decision to include online subscriptions numbers to total print circulations…the Journal…
WSJ.com Goes in For Sponsored Archives Model
WSJ.com has taken the plunge into the sponsored archives model, where a company sponsors premium content in a vertical, and then is made ava…
WSJ.com’s Move Sparks Newspaper Circulation Debate
WSJ.com’s decision to include online subscription to the newspaper’s overall circulation has renewed an industry-wide debate that could lead…
WSJ.com Subscriber Figures To Be Included in Overall WSJ Circulation Figures
The implications of this are slightly unclear at this point (is this going to affect the ad sales or is it just a gimmick?): WSJ.com subscri…
WSJ.com Starts Interest-Based Targeting With CA
Another ad-jargon to keep track of…great.
This is somewhat related to the “Surround Sessions” concept which NYTimes.com has been using for…
MarketWatch Profits Up; Revs Increase Slightly
MarketWatch.com Q3 revenues were $11.6 million, compared to $11.0 million the same period a year ago. Net income was $300,000, compared to a…
Opinion Journal Launches Political Diary
OpinionJournal.com has launched a premium political diary, in wake of the 2004 elections: Political Diary, edited by Holman W. Jenkins Jr. a…
WSJ Online Subscribers Up
WSJ.com has increased its online subscribers to 686,000 at Q3 end, up 3.3 percent over year-ago period. This puts to a stop the slide in the…
CBS MarketWatch Launches Third Subscription Newsletter
MarketWatch.com will launch Retirement Weekly…this is the third paid-subscription product to be launched by MarketWatch this year. Retirem…
MarketWatch Appoints FT MD on Board
MarketWatch.com has appointed Zach Leonard, the former COO of FT.com on its board…MKTW is 1/3rd owned by Pearson, parent of FT, and has hi…
WSJ.com Closes The E-Mail Hack
OK, WSJ.com has closed the e-mail hack, where people could tweak the URL a bit and access the stories…too much abuse, apparently.
MarketWatch Buys Pinncor for $103 Million
In an effort to dig deeper into the syndication market, MarketWatch has bought out the financial information syndication provider Pinnacor (…
Second Look: Are WSJ.com Numbers Really Increasing?
: I should have looked more closely: on reporting on WSJ.com’s subscribers numbers yesterday, I said that its subscribers numbers increased…
WSJ Online Subscribers Up 3.9 Percent
Q2 Results for Dow Jones Electronic Publishing, which includes WSJ.com, among others: Revenues were $80.0 million, up 1.8 percent from the p…
MarketWatch Launches New Subscription Newsletter
MarketWatch.com has launched another subscription newsletter called “The Technical Indicator.” This new daily newsletter offers detailed te…
CBS MarketWatch’s Parallel Economy of Alerts
Yesterday, when I was talking to Bill Bishop, the EVP & General Manager of CBS MarketWatch, I realized that I have never probably visited th…
MarketWatch Launches Institutional News Service
MarketWatch.com, which till now has mainly focused on the consumer market, is trying to make inroads into the institutional market, placing…
Factiva Offers Corporate Subscriptions to WSJ.com
Factiva, owned by Dow Jones and Reuters, is now offering its corporate customers a subscription to WSJ.com. Factiva customers can select fro…
WSJ.com’s New Moves Validates Dotcom Flameouts
Or so says Jimmy Gutterman, an opinion I have disagreed with earlier. WSJ.com launch of its media and marketing edition is not that big a de…
WSJ, InfiniteAgent Launch News Bot
WSJ.com has begun offering stock quotes and snippets of its news stories to users of AOL Instant Messenger, in an attempt to attract new sub…
New Global Newswire Threatens Reuters?
As expected, MarketWatch.com, along with newswires France’s AFX News and China’s Xinhua Financial Networks, has formed “World Business News”…
MarketWatch.com To Take Over AFX’s US News Ops
MarketWatch.com and AFX News are expected to announce today that MarketWatch is taking control of operations and staffing at AFX’s business…
MarketWatch Q1 Revenues Rise; Licensing Revenues Drop
MarketWatch.com’s Q1 revenues for 2003 increased 13 percent to $11.1 million. Ad sales rose 47 percent to $5.2 million. Licensing sales dec…
WSJ.com Subscribers Reach 675,000 Mark
WSJ.com has reached the 675,000 subscribers mark, according to the Q1 results of parent Dow Jones, released today. That is a 5.5 percent inc…
Scott Schulman Moves From WSJ.com Publisher Post
Scott Schulman, who was the publisher of WSJ.com (he replaced Neil Budde late last year) and the president of consumer electronic publishing…
WSJ.com Launches ‘Afternoon Report’
In an attempt to push its print subscribers online, WSJ.com has launched “Afternoon Report”– an add-on that updates with fresh news twice…
MarketWatch in Distribution Deal with Knight-Ridder
In a move which further cements MarketWatch’s licensing revenues (it gets almost 50 percent of its revenues from licensing), it has inked a…
CBS MarketWatch’s Founding Editor Launches
CBS MarketWatch’s Founding Editor Launches New Subscription Report, Retires as Editor: Thom Calandra, the founding editor of CBS MarketWatch…
MarketWatch.com Reports First-Ever Quarterly Profit;
MarketWatch.com Reports First-Ever Quarterly Profit; Licensing Revenues Decline: Continuing the trend among online media companies, MKTW has…
WSJ.com’s Subscribers Reaches the 679,000
WSJ.com’s Subscribers Reaches the 679,000 Mark: Q4 electronic publishing revenues for parent Dow Jones were $77.9 million, down slightly fro…
Reasons Why WSJ.com Readers Pay:
Reasons Why WSJ.com Readers Pay: Business 2.0 does a story on why users pay for WSJ.com: Ask one price for all, develop different verticals,…
MarketWatch.com Launches Newsletters & Research
MarketWatch.com Launches Newsletters & Research Section: MarketWatch.com, the operator of CBS MarketWatch financial news and information sit…
Two Online Rivals Duel With
Two Online Rivals Duel With Mocking Ads: Well, what else did you expect: controversy has cropped up regarding the WSJ.com cheeky “Biz-O-Rama…
CBS MarketWatch to Look for
CBS MarketWatch to Look for More Acquisitions: It has been looking for a while now, buying out Hulbert Financial Digest earlier this year. T…
Rivals has No Problem Accepting
Rivals has No Problem Accepting WSJ.com’s Ads: “I think that it was a little jab, yes,” said Larry Kramer, chairman and chief executive at C…
WSJ.com Launches a New Ad
WSJ.com Launches a New Ad Campaign: Well, finally. WSJ.com has launched a rather belated new TV, print and online ad campaign, which hopes t…
An Exit Interview With WSJ.com’s
An Exit Interview With WSJ.com’s Neil Budde: Wall Street Journal Online Publisher Neil Budde is departing the site, and E&P Online does an “…
Neil Budde Leaves WSJ.com: Neil
Neil Budde Leaves WSJ.com: Neil Budde, WSJ.com’s publisher, is departing to pursue other opportunities. Budde hasn’t decided what he will do…
MarketWatch.com Eyes EDGAR; Spurned by
MarketWatch.com Eyes EDGAR; Spurned by TheStreet.com: EDGAR Online, which has been struggling of late in face of competition from upstarts s…
WSJ.com’s Price Increase to Generate
WSJ.com’s Price Increase to Generate $5 Million in Additional Revenues in 2003: This according to the Q3 10-Q filed by WSJ.com’s parent comp…
MarketWatch’s Q3 Results: Online financial
MarketWatch’s Q3 Results: Online financial news and information provider MarketWatch.com’s (Nasdaq: MKTW) Q3 net losses narrowed and revenue…
WSJ.com’s European Subscriptions: WSJ.com has
WSJ.com’s European Subscriptions: WSJ.com has increased its year-on-year UK circulation by 14 per cent in its latest quarter’s trading for t…
CBS MarketWatch Going the Institutional
CBS MarketWatch Going the Institutional Route: CBS MarketWatch is going to syndicate its content to institutional content players: research…
Kramer vs. Cramer: Business 2.0
Kramer vs. Cramer: Business 2.0 compares the different strategies of CBS MarketWatch and TheStreet.com. Also read the accompanying story on…
Dow Jones CEO on Moving
Dow Jones CEO on Moving on From Being a Laughing Stock to the Poster Child of Online Content Industry: Peter Kann, chairman and CEO of Dow J…
MarketWatch.com’s Licensing/Syndication Revenues Now Account
MarketWatch.com’s Licensing/Syndication Revenues Now Account for 52 Percent of Total: The financial news and information company MarketWatch…
Is WSJ.com’s Fee Increase Too
Is WSJ.com’s Fee Increase Too Much?: Staci Kramer’s take on WSJ.com’s recent price increase from $59 to $79 for non-print subscribers and pr…
WSJ.com Adds 6,000 New Subcribers
WSJ.com Adds 6,000 New Subcribers in Q2 (free registration required): The Wall Street Journal Online has added about 6,000 new subscribers d…
WSJ.com Raises Fee by $20
WSJ.com Raises Fee by $20 Per Year: So it has finally happened…WSJ.com has increased its yearly fee to $79 from $59 for nonprint subscribe…
WSJ.com’s Balance Between Subscription and
WSJ.com’s Balance Between Subscription and Ad Revenues: In an attempt to raise the marketing profile of WSJ.com, the site has been running a…
WSJ.com Moves in B2B Areas:
WSJ.com Moves in B2B Areas: You had to see this coming. WSJ.com plans to launch a vertical on healthcare topics, part of a potential move to…
WSJ.com’s Revenues Decline 10 Percent
WSJ.com’s Revenues Decline 10 Percent (free registration required): The revenue growth of the Wall Street Journal Online has been slowing do…
