Dow Jones Newswires Appoints Michael Bergmeijer and Neal Lipschutz to New Roles.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 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 today announced that it has appointed Michael C. Bergmeijer, 49, vice president and managing director, international, and Neal S. Lipschutz, 48, vice president and managing editor. Mr. Bergmeijer currently serves as vice president, international sales and marketing, and Mr. Lipschutz is currently senior editor, Americas. Both Mr. Bergmeijer and Mr. Lipschutz will report to Paul J. Ingrassia, president, Dow Jones Newswires. These changes will take effect Oct. 3. In his new role, Mr. Bergmeijer will be responsible for both business and news operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Europe, the Middle East and Africa, usually abbreviated to EMEA, is a regional designation used for government, marketing and business purposes. It is particularly common amongst North American based companies, who often divide their international operations into the , as well as Asia-Pacific. His expanded role will allow him to direct the growth of Newswires' overall business, including its roster of local-language wires (which now number nine) and its opportunities to expand relationships with key partners. Mr. Lipschutz will directly supervise the news staffs in the Americas. He also will be the chief arbiter of, and spokesman for, news policies, coverage and standards for Newswires on a global basis. He will work closely with Mr. Bergmeijer in his new role. "This new structure will better position Newswires to seize the unique opportunities and to address the special challenges that will arise during the next couple of years," Mr. Ingrassia said. "In North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , the changing role of stock brokers--our traditional core subscriber base--along with the increasing complexity of markets and the opportunity to use new technologies, means we will reshape our wires in a variety of ways." A native of Oegstgeest, the Netherlands, Mr. Bergmeijer began his 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 career in 1984 as a copyreader for AP-Dow Jones in New York. Between 1986 and 1993, he ran the AP-DJ news operations in Italy, after which he moved to Singapore to launch the Asian Equities Report. He subsequently assumed responsibility for all Newswires news operations in Asia as well as business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets in the region, before moving to London as vice president of international sales and marketing in 2000. Mr. Bergmeijer has both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree master's degree n. An academic degree conferred by a college or university upon those who complete at least one year of prescribed study beyond the bachelor's degree. Noun 1. from the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Smith College in Northhampton, Mass. He also has a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies in Bologna, Italy. Mr. Lipschutz, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., has worked for Dow Jones since 1982, serving in a variety of Newswires editorial positions. He became assistant managing editor of Dow Jones News Service, the Company's flagship wire, in 1989, deputy managing editor in 1990 and managing editor in 1997. He was named senior editor for the Americas in 1999. Under Mr. Lipschutz's leadership, Newswires reporters repeatedly have won journalism awards, including a prestigious Loeb Award this year. He has a bachelor's degree in journalism from New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the . About Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires (djnewswires.com) offers real-time news and information solutions for financial professionals providing investment, advice and institutional services. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites and Dow Jones Financial Information Services' database, newsletter and event businesses. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : DJ; www.dowjones.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, 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 radio stations in the U.S. |
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