NEW YORK (Sept. 8, 2008) — The Wall Street Journal announced today it is partnering with Dow Jones Newswires to revamp and expand its venerable Heard on the Street column to provide readers with a far broader mix of agenda-setting analysis and commentary.
The Heard on the Street column has been an everyday fixture in the Journal and a staple in every business executive's daily diet since the 1960's. The new Heard column is truly global with more than a dozen dedicated news staff located in the U.S., Europe and Asia contributing to a daily newspaper column in all three editions of the paper and providing updates during global trading days that will be featured first in several real-time information services from Dow Jones Newswires and later in the subscriber content of WSJ.com.
"Heard on the Street will echo around Wall Street and the world with a resonance well beyond its traditional influence," said Robert Thomson, managing editor for The Wall Street Journal and editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company. "Business readers are overwhelmed by information, so what they crave is intelligent analysis and market-moving insight -- that is precisely what the revamped Heard will provide, in print, on the web and, crucially, on Newswires. Our commitment to that high quality content is reflected in our investment in an outstanding team of reporters and the expanded real estate devoted to their work in the Journal."
Photo: Thorold Barker
"Heard columnists will take a critical, sharp-eyed look at companies in the news throughout the trading day, providing readers with more robust and more timely analysis about companies, markets, M&A and more," said Neal Lipschutz, senior vice president and managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires. "The new, combined team will provide traders, investors, and analysts with hard-to-get insight that will help drive better investment decisions."
New Heard Column to Have Own Web Presence
With a dedicated Heard on the Street page on WSJ.com, accessible by subscribers only, the column's significant online presence includes the column plus exclusive web-only, actionable analysis updated during the day. The site also features embedded charts and links to the Journal's extensive company research pages.
The financial professionals who rely on Dow Jones Newswires' real-time service will receive intraday commentary and analysis from Heard on the Street reporters before the updates appear on WSJ.com.
Heard Column Anchored by Veteran News Team
The Heard on the Street editorial team is anchored by Thorold Barker as the editor. He recently joined the Journal from the Financial Times where he was U.S. editor of the paper's Lex column. He originally joined the FT as a reporter in 1998 after starting his career at Bain and Company. Mr. Barker will be supported by the following senior news staff:
Martin Peers, deputy editor for the Heard column, has been a reporter and editor at the Journal since 1999, most recently as deputy media and technology editor. He started his reporting career in 1982 and has worked on a variety of different newspapers in both the U.S. and Australia;
David Reilly is a veteran Heard on the Street writer who has reported on financial markets for the Wall Street Journal in New York, London and Brussels. He was a recipient along with three Journal colleagues this year of a Gerald Loeb award and in 2004 was a winner along with two colleagues of an Overseas Press Club award;
Peter Eavis has written for Heard on the Street since the start of
2008. Previously he was a reporter at Fortune and TheStreet.com, where
he won a Gerald Loeb award for his coverage of Fannie Mae;
Liam Denning recently joined the Journal from the Financial Times,
where he spent over 3 years writing for the Lex column. Previously, he
was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs;
Simon Nixon will run the European Heard team. He was formerly executive editor of Breakingviews.com, City editor of The Week and a founding editor of Moneyweek. He is a regular contributor to The Spectator and has written for a number of other UK and international newspapers and magazines. He began his career in investment banking and has a first class degree in History from Cambridge University;
Matthew Curtin, formerly a news editor for the Dow Jones Newswires'
Skeptic team, has written on international finance and business for Dow
Jones from France, Singapore, and South Africa since 1994;
Sean Walters, formerly a special writer on Dow Jones Newswires' Skeptic
team, has consulted on such areas as operational strategy, marketing
and finance;
Molly Neal has been a financial news reporter since 2004. Before joining the Skeptic column as special writer, she reported on the real estate, support services, telecoms, media and technology sectors for Dow Jones Newswires;
Arindam Nag has been a columnist for Dow Jones since the start of 2006 and has covered business and finance for 17 years in Asia, Europe and the United States. Prior to joining Dow Jones he was with Reuters for 11 years.
Mohammed Hadi will run the Asia Heard team. He has been covering Asian
stock markets since August 2007. He also covered the U.S. options
market, during which time he was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb award.
Prior to becoming a journalist Mohammed was a financial analyst at a
New York City hedge fund;
Andrew Peaple has been a financial journalist since 2003. Currently
based in Beijing he has also covered the U.K. economy and financial
services. Prior to becoming a journalist Andrew was a U.K.-qualified
chartered accountant working in both London and Tokyo;
James Simms has been a correspondent in Japan for 13 years, including over ten years at Dow Jones covering economics, politics and regulatory issues.
Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at the Wall Street Journal. He was part of a team that won the 2007 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he was part of a team that won the 2003 Gerald Loeb award for breaking news coverage of the demise of WorldCom. Greg was nominated for a 2008 Gerald Loeb award, for coverage of the mortgage meltdown. Greg joined the paper in 1996 after writing about media companies for the New York Post. He graduated from Brandeis University in 1988, Magna Cum Laude.
Dow Jones Newswires journalists who contributed to The Skeptic, a Dow Jones Newswires column that provides a critical examination of corporate strategy, industry trends and markets throughout the trading day, will join the new Heard editorial team and bring the same level of astute insights to the revamped column. All of The Skeptic team's reporting will now be branded Heard on the Street.
Beginning today, the Heard column has expanded to cover the top half of the Money & Investing section's back page every weekday.
"Any business person anywhere in the world who does not read the Heard column on the wires, the web or in print will not be properly briefed, and who can afford the vulnerability of ignorance in the contemporary marketplace?" said Mr. Thomson.
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