Daily business news in New York
Oath, the bizarre name given to Verizon’s digital media subsidiary, is losing its name next year and will officially become Verizon Media Group on January 8, 2019. Oath was formed on June 23, 2017 when Verizon purchased Yahoo for $4.48 billion. It merged the Internet site with its own content division that included AOL, Techcrunch […]
NEW YORK — Discovery, operator of cable networks Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC and more, has selected 230 Park Avenue South in New York’s Flatiron district as the location for its new global headquarters. Announced earlier this year, the company is moving its headquarters from Maryland to the Big Apple to be closer to advertising […]
NEW YORK – Matt Murray has been named the new Editor-in-Chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, succeeding Gerard Baker, who will move to a new position as the Journal’s Editor-at-Large, which will include regular writing and hosting the paper’s expanding network of conferences and events. Baker will also host a new […]
National Geographic and The Wall Street Journal are teaming up to launch Far & Away, a print magazine for business travelers. The first issue will be distributed with the Saturday May 19thedition of The Wall Street Journal. Far & Away combines the insights of The Wall Street Journal with the visual storytelling of National Geographic. The […]
The New York Times has hired Nick Summers as its new Sunday Business Editor. Nick joins The Times from Bloomberg Businessweek, where he was a features editor. While at the magazine, he edited stories on a wide variety of topics: cut-rate coffins, introducing luxury cruises to the Chinese market, how Goldman Sachs lost $1.2 billion […]
The NY Times has hired Li Yuan, a China tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal, to be its first Asia technology columnist for the Business section. She starts in May and will be based in Hong Kong. Li has been a China tech columnist at WSJ since 2015, writing a weekly column called China […]
While many magazines are going online only, Dow Jones is doing the opposite with Mansion Global. The Wall Street Journal publisher has launched a print magazine this month based on its popular luxury real estate website. The first issue of Mansion Global magazine appeared in the March 19th edition of Barron’s magazine, polybagged with the […]