MarketWatch

MarketWatch
Type of site
 Financial Information
Headquarters New York City, New York, U.S.
Owner Dow Jones & Company
Editor Jeremy Olshan[1]
Website www.marketwatch.com
Alexa rank Decrease 930 (August 2016)[2]
Launched July 31, 1997 (1997-07-31)[3]
Current status Online

MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news, analysis, and stock market data. It is a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp, which also owns The Wall Street Journal. MarketWatch is part of the Dow Jones Media Group, along with Barron's.

The publication reported it hit a record 33.3 million unique visitors in February of 2018. The previous record was 27 million unique visitors in one month. As recently as January 2016, it had 23.3 million unique visitors, which was then a record.[4] It has been honored several times as a top large business-focused website by Editor & Publisher, Media Week, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and other publications and organizations.[5]

The company operates BigCharts.com and the stock market simulation site VirtualStockExchange.com. The publication's OCLC number is 56914924.[6]

History

MarketWatch used to operate in partnership with CBS News. The Financial Times was an original financial partner and investor in MarketWatch. Dow Jones acquired it in January 2005 for $530 million.

MarketWatch was founded by Larry Kramer and others, including Bill Bishop in business development and Thom Calandra, formerly of Bloomberg London, in editorial, in 1997. MarketWatch was incubated at Data Broadcasting Corp., a San Mateo, California, company that owned distribution rights for financial information. Calandra recommended that Kramer hire David Callaway a former colleague of Calandra, as the site’s managing editor from Bloomberg two years later. In 2013, Glenn Hall, former editor in chief of TheStreet, became the editor of MarketWatch.[7] In 2014, Jeremy Olshan, a veteran of the New York Post, took over as editor.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Adinolfi, Joseph (2014-05-14). "Jeremy Olshan takes reins as editor of". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  2. ↑ "marketwatch.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ "MarketWatch.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-08-14.
  4. ↑ Roush, Chris, "MarketWatch.com sets monthly visitor record", Talking Biz News, March 13, 2018.
  5. ↑ Wilkerson, David B., "Callaway to become top USA Today editor", MarketWatch, July 10, 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-10.
  6. ↑ "MarketWatch.com, Inc. ... annual report", WorldCat.org, n.d. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
  7. ↑ By MarketWatch (2013-09-23). "appoints Glenn Hall editor". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
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