Category: Business Today

Marketplace and Friends:

I am thrilled to bring some truly good news to this space. Marketplace has a new Executive Editor. Donna Tam, who in various leadership roles over the past six years has managed our on-demand, social media and web platforms to new heights, will take over this month as our newsroom lead.

Donna will report to me and will oversee Marketplace’s reporters, editors and show staffs. She also will shepherd new content initiatives within the newsroom. Donna will begin this transition on Nov 28.

I’m really excited for Donna and for Marketplace. When she and I first discussed this role this summer, her knowledge and effectiveness across multiple fronts positioned her as the best authority on Marketplace. As other candidates emerged and faded, it became clear to me that our best approach to change is with

Industry Dive has launched Manufacturing Dive, its 29th business news publication.

The site will be run by editor Kate Magill, with content from reporter Sara Samora and associate editor Megan Ruggles. Frequent areas of coverage will include openings and expansions, operations, labor, technology and regulation.

Samora previously worked for Stars and Stripes and he Houston Business Journal.

“Our expansion into manufacturing is an important step in our ambitions to lead coverage of the business world,” said Edwin Lopez, managing editor for Manufacturing Dive, Supply Chain Dive and Transport Dive, in a statement. “It presents an opportunity to dig deep into the supply and demand trends that affect global production, and the various ways manufacturing executives are shaping our economy’s future.”

Manufacturing is a vital sector in the U.S. economy. In 2021 alone, manufacturing industries employed more than 12 million workers and produced nearly $5.7 trillion worth

Stuff is working with staff to build a local news model that sidesteps the obstacles regional publishers face. All journalists affected will continue to hold posts at the company.

The new model will have a regional reporting team, including a group regional editor, news directors, reporters and visual journalists.

Chief content officer Joanna Norris said:

“Our journalism is valued and supported in local communities, so we’ve worked hard to keep boots on the ground with a strong and flexible regional operation, where most national media organisations no longer have news teams.

“Local news and accountability is important – this was stressed by our teams during consultation and also by people from local communities who got in touch. Through these changes we have ensured local journalists can stay based in local communities.”

The new model is expected to be in place by Dec. 5.

Knight Kiplinger, editor emeritus of The Kiplinger Letter, writes about why the 99-year-old newsletter has remained successful.

Kiplinger writes, “What many of our readers may not know is that our savvy, Washington-based reporters and editors are fulfilling the same mission, in much the same way, as their predecessors at Kiplinger did, going back 99 years.

“Next year will be the 100th anniversary of the first issue, in September of 1923. (I would be born 25 years later and would become, by the 1980s, the third generation of Kiplingers to edit the Letter.)

“The reasons for the Letter’s longevity are rooted in editorial innovations that were modern and compelling in 1923, and even more so today:

• Not just dry news (what government officials say and do), but bold forecasts based on thorough reporting and analysis, relying on unnamed but highly trustworthy sources
• Lean, colloquial writing, to save the reader’s valuable

Colleagues,

This month, we are celebrating the 125th anniversary of Dow Jones Newswires—a milestone worthy of reflection for what it represents in our company’s history and the promise it holds for our future.

Today, our Newswires business plays a pivotal role in the Dow Jones ecosystem. Millions of investors around the globe rely on our trusted, real-time news and information to make critical business decisions.

We operate in a very competitive industry that demands trust, excellence and speed. From our regional reporting hubs in New York, Barcelona and Singapore, our world-renowned newsrooms work around the clock to deliver essential coverage that drives decisions and moves markets globally. In a world where many businesses quickly come and go, it is rare to celebrate a century anniversary—let alone a 125th. Dow Jones Newswires

The San Antonio Business Journal has named Ed Arnold its editor in chief.

W. Scott Bailey of the Business Journal writes, “A graduate of the University of Memphis, Arnold launched his career with American City Business Journals in 2012 as an editorial intern for the Memphis Business Journal. He then leveraged that opportunity into a four-year run as digital producer and social engagement manager for the Tennessee publication before making the move to ACBJ’s San Antonio publication nearly six years ago.

“‘I could not be more honored to lead the team at the San Antonio Business Journal,’ Arnold said. ‘It’s been a life-long ambition to lead a newsroom like this one at a time like this. The city’s business community is changing at a break-neck pace and I can’t wait to help tell its story.’

“As editor in chief, Arnold will lead the Business Journal’s digital and print