Dow Jones & Company Appoints Richard J. Levine Vice President of News and Staff Development.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Company today announced that it has appointed Richard J. Levine, 63, to the new role of vice president of news and staff development, effective Oct. 3. Mr. Levine, who currently serves as vice president and executive editor of Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , will report to Paul E. Steiger, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal, and Paul J. Ingrassia, president, Dow Jones Newswires. In his new role, Mr. Levine will be responsible for developing a staff training program for all Dow Jones journalists, and for devising ways to expand and increase the effectiveness of coordination and collaboration between the staffs of the Company's two largest news departments--The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. He also will seek to improve the Company's relationships with third-party content providers whose material is used throughout Dow Jones. "In addressing these important issues, Dick will draw on his nearly 40 years of experience across the Company's print and electronic news operations," said Peter R. Kann, chairman and chief executive officer, Dow Jones & Company. "The expertise that he brings to this position, which comes from one of the longest and broadest editorial careers at Dow Jones, makes Dick uniquely qualified for his new role." Mr. Levine started with Dow Jones in 1966 as a reporter in the Journal's Washington bureau, where he was chief economic writer for assignments ranging from labor to military affairs. In 1980, he moved to the Company's South Brunswick South Brunswick is the name of several places in the United States of America:
He was named vice president and managing editor of Dow Jones Newswires in 1995 and executive editor in 2001. In these positions, he has expanded and directed a global news staff of more than 870 journalists in 92 bureaus. Earlier this year, he took on the added assignment of president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. dedicated to improving journalism. Mr. Levine holds a bachelor's degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University, and a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where he was named a Pulitzer Traveling Fellow. About Dow Jones & Company In addition to The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DJ; www.dowjones.com) publishes Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes, MarketWatch, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC Universal of the CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and operates The Wall Street Journal Radio Network in the U.S. |
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