As expected, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) has bought the remaining 50 percent stake in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst. The financial terms weren’t disclosed. In addition to the magazine, Dow Jones will own 100 percent of the related website along with the SmartMoney Custom Solutions unit. In a statement,…

The WSJ has been targeting the NYT’s luxury retail advertisers for over a year, but with the expected debut of the News Corp-owned paper’s NYC metro section in April, the ad war will officially begin, AdAge reports. While the NYT has expressed confidence in its ability to maintain its long-standing…

Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) wants to buy the 50 percent stake it doesn’t currently have in personal finance mag SmartMoney from Hearst, the WSJ reports, citing unidentified sources. No word on what price DJ is offering for the magazine, though a deal could be hammered out by next week. The…

While others are trying to figure out how to charge for their content, Dow Jones’ financial news site MarketWatch is plowing ahead with plans for several new pay-to-subscribe newsletters. On Monday, MarketWatch will unveil Revolution Investing, a premium newsletter aimed at traders for an annual fee of $199; the early-bird…

While Murdoch’s footsoldiers rush to charge for consumer news like WSJ.com does for biz content, and while WSJ.com itself continues its European expansion, one part of the pie is often overlooked… Financial News, DJ’s subscription site covering the London securities market, has redesigned and maintained its place in the Wall…

Update: Dow Jones has issued a release saying it is forming a joint venture with CME Group to operate a global financial index services business. The business is valued at $607.5 million. The new joint venture will also raise roughly $613 million in third-party debt which will be used to…

News Corp earnings were up across the board, as the company swung to a profit of $254 million ($0.10) in Q4, reversing $6.4 billion loss. The company said this reflected double-digit growth at its “majority business segments.” Even the newspaper/information segment was up, gaining 29.5 percent over last year’s period.…

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Current Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli exited his one-year stint as managing editor of the WSJ with $6.4 million, Politico says, citing a new book about News Corp.‘s purchase of the newspaper’s parent, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), a little more than two years ago.

With advertising still struggling, the WSJ is expanding its commerce offerings by getting into travel services. The site, WSJ Travel, will sell and promote vacation packages. Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), the WSJ’s parent, makes it clear that the travel site is separate from the paper’s editorial side. The travel effort…

A little more than a year after joining FiLife as president and general manger, Ezra Kucharz is leaving to become president of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media. FiLife is the personal finance joint venture between IAC (NSDQ: IACI) and Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS)—and both credit Kucharz with turning around…

Less than a month after the surprise announcement that Todd Larsen had been promoted to president of Dow Jones and Clare Hart was out, Larsen is filling in his own org chart for the combined consumer and enterprise businesses. The new set up is divided into five business groups, each…

A new year and a new org chart for Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) & Company: Clare Hart, president of the Enterprise Media Group and an EVP, is leaving and Todd Larsen is the survivor, moving to president of Dow Jones and heading all business ops as the company combines its…

News Corp (NYSE: NWS) is expanding its online pay efforts in the U.S. Two of the eight newspaper publishers in the Dow Jones Local Media Group will start charging for at least partial access to their respective websites next year. The two newspaper groups, Massachusetts’ SouthCoast Media Group, publisher of…

Sony (NYSE: SNE) has struck a deal with News Corp (NYSE: NWS). that gives the electronics company the opportunity to sell subscriptions to the WSJ digital edition of the WSJ, as well its Dow Jones sibling MarketWatch, plus exclusive rights the digitized New York Post, on its Daily Edition e-reader.…

More change in the Wall Street Journal edit ranks, this time spurred by the defection of Nik Deogun to CNBC. Rebecca Blumenstein, who had been managing editor for online, was promoted to International Editor/DME, taking Deogun’s spot in the WSJ edit “troika” made of the three deputy managing editors heading…

You could almost hear Rupert Murdoch choking on his Corn Flakes last week, when reading - in his own paper, the WSJ - Eric Schmidt’s defensive op-ed that “frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame” for their travails. So Rupe has done what comes pretty easily; he’s penned…

WSJ Managing Editor Robert Thomson is known for his one-line zingers. He famously told Google (NSDQ: GOOG) VP Marissa Mayer earlier this fall that her search engine was encouraging “promiscuity.” He also riled some writers at the WSJ just after his arrival by declaring that some of the paper’s longer-form…

At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world in general, as is the wont of every News Corp exec these days. More specifically, against “geeks bearing gifts”, “false gospel of the Web” and “out &…

Yesterday the news came out that Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS), as part of its continued string of divestitures, had sold off its Online Financial Solutions business to Interactive Data Corp. The OFS assets were formerly part of MarketWatch Licensing Services, before DJ bought MarketWatch in 2005. Most of the parts…