Dow Jones needs an editor and journalists

The Wall Street Journal Online is looking for an editor to lead a new business-focused Web site. Dow Jones says the position is "a rare opportunity to help shape a new site that will break ground in the paid-content arena". The editor will lead a team of editors and create comprehensive coverage through multimedia. They will also meet with technology, product development, business development and marketing teams to make the new site.
Applicants should have a strong understanding of business along with 10 years' experience in journalism with at least three to five of those years spent in digital operations. They should also be knowledgeable in content-management systems, taxonomy and metadata design and the product-development process.

Dow Jones is also looking for journalists. A reporter to cover aerospace companies is wanted in California who has five years' experience at a daily newspaper. The company is also looking for a reporter in New York to cover the oil market for its newswire.

Learn more about the position and apply online here.

Want to cover energy for Dow Jones?

Dow Jones is searching for an energy reporter based in Ottawa, Canada to handle breaking news and offer insights on oil, natural gas and renewable energy companies and markets.

This reporter will also assist U.S. reporters on coverage of the Nymex oil futures market, and will also produce content for the Emission Critical and Renewed Energy columns.

Candidates should have previous reporting covering energy markets and companies at a news wire, newspaper or magazine. Applicants must legally be able to work in Canada.
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Dow Jones is looking for reporters and editors

Dow Jones has four full-time reporting positions available right now. You can apply for jobs including:

• Reporting Assistant
• Equities Reporter
• Title Reporter
• Federal Reserve Reporter
  

It is also offering 6 different editing positions. To see the list of available news and editorial positions at Dow Jones, click here.

Dow Jones adds financial journalists to global team

Dow Jones, parent company of The Wall Street Journal, announced the addition of two business journalists to their editorial staff for the Dow Jones Newswires this week.
Jamie Miyazaki, a former Tokyo Dow Jones Newswires correspondent, joins the Hong Kong team as a senior writer covering Asia.
Syndicated international loan market writer and former contributor to Loan Radar news service, Alessandro Pasetti, will also join the Dow Jones as a senior writer in their London office.
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Dow Jones trims benefits

Though The Wall Street Journal's circulation and site usage has increased, its parent company News Corp. is cutting back benefits in the face of economic woes.
Dow Jones Chief Executive Les Hinton announced the cuts in a memo Tuesday. The cuts will freeze the Money Purchase Plan and reduce health care subsidies for the retired.
Hinton said some of the money saved in the cuts would be put toward new health and wellness benefits.
Hinton said in the memo, "We want to give Dow Jones employees - whose ages, family situations, and career profiles are more varied than ever before - increased choice and enhanced coverage while providing individuals with better ways to manage health care costs."
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Wall Street Journal prints in India

The Dow Jones & Co. announced Tuesday it will print The Wall Street Journal Asia in India. The move is part of the company's expansion into India and China. It will be printed in New Delhi and Mumbai and delivered the same day to subscribers in major Indian cities.
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Dow Jones plans expansion in India

Editor & Publisher reports that Dow Jones, parent company of The Wall Street Journal, is doubling its investment in its operations in India.
From the story:

"India is an increasingly important market for us," said Bruce MacFarlane, vice president and managing director, Asia Pacific, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. "The opportunities are significant and will only continue to grow as the Indian market becomes more and more hungry for high-quality business news and information."

Murdoch tells Dow Jones employees he will set an even "higher bar"

Rupert Murdoch spoke to Dow Jones employees at their Manhattan headquarters several hours after he bought their company, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal's Sarah Ellison.
Murdoch acknowledge that change creates nervousness and is sometimes difficult, but said Dow Jones must be the essential source of financial information and comment in the world.
Ellison reports says that Murdoch told employees he understood the value of Dow Jones and in particular The Wall Street Journal.
"If anything, you will find us trying to set a higher bar," Murdoch said.
Shareholders approved the more than $5 billion sale of Dow Jones & Co. to Murdoch's News Corp. on Thursday.
To read Ellison's full report click here.

Bancroft family expresses emotion over sale of Dow Jones

The vote that ended Dow Jones tenure today as an independent company, something it has been for 105 years, was emotional for some Bancroft family members, according to a report in Forbes.
Jane Cox MacElree the oldest surviving member of the Bancroft clan, teared up when asked about the sale.
"It's a very sad day," MacElree said. "Something that's been in your family for many generations--to see it end is very sad."
Other family members openly expressed their opinion about selling their company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
"I'm sad about this. This is a moment that I did not wish for,'' Dow Jones director Christopher Bancroft said, before the meeting.
To read the full story from Forbes click here.

Snippets: Murdoch interviewed on Fox News

Shareholders approved News Corp's purchase of Dow Jones today. Rupert Murdoch then appeared on Fox News.

Snippets from the interview...

• He plans to develop international editions of The Wall Street Journal.

• In regard to competition with The New York Times: "We are a long way in front now."

• Despite the success of the WSJ.com paid subscriber model, Murdoch talks of making the site free saying they'll cover the subscription revenue by increasing total online circulation (viewers) resulting in greater online advertising revenue. More eyes, more ad dollars.
  

• On how to get young people reading newspapers again: "Make newspapers better and more exciting."

• On making articles shorter: Murdoch wants to "keep the paper busy." Perhaps break stories in parts, "guts on the front page" and the rest inside.

• On Fox Business Network: "It's going well." Dow Jones and Fox Business Network will help each other.

Murdoch also talked politics and shared views on the writers' strike and its impacts on the industry.

Wall Street Journal sale is final

This afternoon the majority of Dow Jones & Co. shareholders approved selling the company to News Corp. for $5.6 billion.
The general council of Dow Jones said shareholders holding 60.27 percent of the company's stock had been approved for the sale, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal.
The sale ends the Bancroft family ownership of Dow Jones, which dates back to more than a century.
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Approval likely for Wall Street Journal sale

The Wall Street Journal reports that a count of proxy votes indicates Dow Jones shareholders will approve a News Corp. takeover tomorrow.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. has offered to buy the company for more than $5 billion, which would end the Bancroft family long ownership of the newspaper.
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