You searched for feed – Dow Jones https://www.dowjones.com/ Dow Jones Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:10:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Our Commitment Section https://www.dowjones.com/career/our-commitment-section/ Tue, 23 May 2023 18:35:17 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=career&p=19987 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to our culture and advancing the mission of Dow Jones. We strive to foster a culture of learning that is welcoming, supportive and empowering, where everyone feels they belong. We believe that by embracing a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, we can better meet

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to our culture and advancing the mission of Dow Jones. We strive to foster a culture of learning that is welcoming, supportive and empowering, where everyone feels they belong. We believe that by embracing a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, we can better meet the needs of our audiences and customers who rely on our trusted journalism, data and analysis to make decisions. We are committed to continuously growing as a company by seeking team members, vendors and suppliers who reflect the broader community we serve.

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Dow Jones is committed to serving a wide and diverse audience and is dedicated to making our products accessible and user-friendly for all. We welcome your feedback and encourage you to contact us if you have experienced any difficulty viewing, listening to or navigating content on any of our platforms. We’d also like to hear if you have identified any content or functionality that you believe is not accessible to people with disabilities.

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Our Commitment Section https://www.dowjones.com/about/our-commitment-section/ Tue, 23 May 2023 18:33:28 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?page_id=19985 Our Culture At Dow Jones we strive to foster a culture that is welcoming, supportive and empowering, where everyone feels they belong. We believe that by embracing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, we can better meet the needs of our audiences and customers who rely on our trusted journalism, data and analysis

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Our Culture

At Dow Jones we strive to foster a culture that is welcoming, supportive and empowering, where everyone feels they belong. We believe that by embracing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives, we can better meet the needs of our audiences and customers who rely on our trusted journalism, data and analysis to make decisions. We are committed to continuously growing as a company by seeking team members, vendors and suppliers who reflect the broader community we serve.

Accessibility

Dow Jones is committed to serving a wide and diverse audience and is dedicated to making our products accessible and user-friendly for all. We welcome your feedback and encourage you to contact us if you have experienced any difficulty viewing, listening to or navigating content on any of our platforms. We’d also like to hear if you have identified any content or functionality that you believe is not accessible to people with disabilities.

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How President Trump has kept near-unanimous GOP support through impeachment, Davos 2020 updates, and more https://www.dowjones.com/william-lewis/how-president-trump-has-kept-near-unanimous-gop-support-through-impeachment-davos-2020-updates-and-more/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:58:08 +0000 https://dowjones.com/?post_type=blog&p=18793 WSJ looks at how President Trump has kept near-unanimous GOP support through impeachment: “The unity is the byproduct not only of a White House charm offensive this fall and widespread Republican concerns about the fairness of the impeachment process, but more broadly the president’s personal powers of persuasion and his raw political power over the

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  • WSJ looks at how President Trump has kept near-unanimous GOP support through impeachment: “The unity is the byproduct not only of a White House charm offensive this fall and widespread Republican concerns about the fairness of the impeachment process, but more broadly the president’s personal powers of persuasion and his raw political power over the party, fueled by an intensely loyal base of GOP voters.” 
  • WSJ’s James Mackintosh says in stakeholder capitalism, shareholders are still king. Follow WSJ’s updates from the World Economic Forum in Davos here.
  • Worries about income inequality, jobs disappearing due to automation and environmental sustainability are all feeding wide-scale distrust in capitalism as the world knows it, according to a new study released Sunday. 
  • Hospitals have granted Microsoft, International Business Machines, and Amazon.com the ability to access identifiable patient information under deals to crunch millions of health records, the latest examples of hospitals’ growing influence in the data economy.
  • Barron’s says the U.S.- China trade trade deal looks like a “modest positive” but argues that large uncertainties still remain: “Though U.S.-China relations may have thawed, investors should still brace for a long and contentious slog as the two countries reset their relationship.”
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    The Wall Street Journal’s Video Partnership with Twitter Launches with Daily Content and Live Events Programming https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/the-wall-street-journals-video-partnership-with-twitter-launches-with-daily-content-and-live-events-programming/ Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:59:01 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=press-room&p=17563 WSJ What’s Now on Twitter delivers the Journal’s trusted reporting on the top news stories of the day through fast, information-packed videos. The Wall Street Journal’s partnership with Twitter launches today with WSJ What’s Now. These quick, information packed videos, produced by the Journal’s newsroom, are designed specifically for the Twitter audience and will feature

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    WSJ What’s Now on Twitter delivers the Journal’s trusted reporting on the top news stories of the day through fast, information-packed videos.

    The Wall Street Journal’s partnership with Twitter launches today with WSJ What’s Now. These quick, information packed videos, produced by the Journal’s newsroom, are designed specifically for the Twitter audience and will feature our early morning news summary, a look ahead at the big stories of the day, market-moving moments, personal finance segments and end of day insights.

    WSJ What’s Now will also feature original videos of the Journal’s enterprise reporting and expert-level business analysis.

    In the coming weeks and months, the Journal will livestream a curated selection of panels from its conferences and events, including the upcoming WSJ Tech Live, giving Twitter users the opportunity to watch news unfold live on stage.

    WSJ What’s Now is a natural extension of our reporting and a true collaboration between the video, social, live journalism and markets teams,” said Matt Murray, the Journal’s editor in chief, “We are excited to experiment with new video storytelling opportunities on Twitter and share our highly trusted journalism with their broad audience.”

    “We’re pleased to offer marketers an opportunity that combines the editorial & brand authority of The Wall Street Journal with speed, scale and targeting capabilities of Twitter,” said Drew Stoneman, VP of Commercial Strategy and Partnerships, “This partnership is changing the conversation that both WSJ and Twitter are having in the market and we expect this initiative to drive meaningful growth for both businesses in the months ahead.”

    To ensure WSJ What’s Now updates are delivered to your Twitter newsfeed, please follow the handle @wsj.

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    Steve Severinghaus
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    Welcoming Strategy Team Leaders https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/welcoming-strategy-team-leaders/ Mon, 22 Jul 2019 16:48:01 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=press-room&p=17550 Dear All, We’re pleased to introduce you to new leaders in the Strategy Department. They’re here to help all of us expand our digital reach and experiment with new formats and types of coverage. All of these team leads are new partners you can work with, and they will help us move forward even faster

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    Dear All,

    We’re pleased to introduce you to new leaders in the Strategy Department. They’re here to help all of us expand our digital reach and experiment with new formats and types of coverage.

    All of these team leads are new partners you can work with, and they will help us move forward even faster in our change initiatives. Feel free to reach out to them or us any time if you have suggestions or thoughts.

    Louise & Matt

    Here’s the lineup:

    Young Audiences
    Our young audiences initiative will be led by Lauren Redding and Ethar El-Katatney.Lauren joins after seven years as the publisher of Rookie Magazine, a digital magazine that published and nurtured creative work by teenagers, people in college and other young people. While leading Rookie, Lauren managed the brand’s expansion into book publishing, podcasting, events and more as well as managed a team of editors on staff at the site. Lauren graduated from the University of Minnesota.

    Ethar was until recently the senior executive producer overseeing the newsroom at AJ+, the digital-focused unit of Al Jazeera. She has 12 years of international journalism experience, working on news, features and investigative stories for print, online, and TV. Her first book on Sufism in Yemen was published in London in 2010. She has an MBA and an MA in Television and Digital Journalism from the American University in Cairo.

    Ethar and Lauren are hiring a team of journalists with skills in multiple mediums to produce original content and to partner with reporters around the newsroom. The team will work to expand our reach and resonance with young audiences. To stay up to speed on how this initiative evolves, click here.

    New Audiences
    Ebony Reed will be leading our new audiences initiative.

    Ebony joins from the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and the Missouri School of Journalism where she ran an innovation lab and taught media sales courses. Her background is in journalism, business development and advertising with stints at the Associated Press, American City Business Journals (Boston), The Detroit News and The Plain Dealer. She has her M.A. and B.A. from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

    Ebony will begin with a focus on professional women and leading a financial literacy project for the broader public. She will develop future initiatives for minority groups. She will also help continue to change the mix of people we quote in our stories and feature in our photographs. To stay up to speed on how these initiatives evolve, click here.

    Data Science
    Ross Fadely has joined us as our data sciences chief.

    Ross most recently ran the New York office of Insight Data Science, a professional education company that helps people move into careers in data science, data engineering, and AI. Prior to that, Ross did his Ph.D. in astrophysics at Rutgers University and two postdocs in astronomy, one at Haverford and another at N.Y.U., focusing on applications for machine learning in astronomy.

    Ross is hiring a team of data scientists and analysts who will help us to better understand what our audience values in our journalism. To stay up to speed on how our audience data initiatives evolve, click here.

    Agenda Editor
    Emily Anderson has joined as our agenda editor, developing our digital programming strategy and working to make more impact with our most ambitious journalism projects.

    Over the past year, Emily set up the Hasan Minhaj show “Patriot Act” for Netflix as the supervising producer, leading the Peabody-winning news team that reported out each episode. Prior to that, she held managerial and production roles in video and programming at Vice News Tonight on HBO, BuzzFeed News, CNN, Vice News Tonight on HBO and at The New York Times, where among other things, she oversaw the line-up of live coverage for the 2016 election. She’s a graduate of Boston College.

    Emily is interested in teaming up with reporters and editors early in their projects to figure out the ways to make the most impact with ambitious work. She is also serving as a partner with PDE to help the newsroom and PDE coordinate on large projects.

    Edward Hyatt, our new SEO editor, works on the Agenda team. He joined the Journal this spring from News UK, where he was an SEO manager. He is a resource to anyone who wants pointers on headlines and optimization for Google.

    R&D Team
    The R&D Team, led by Francesco Marconi, is growing. Alyssa Zeisler, Erin Riglin and Eric Bolton have joined to help the team work on initiatives that use machine learning and new editorial processes.

    Alyssa joins us as R&D editor from Barron’s, where she was Audience Managing Editor overseeing the development, presentation, and distribution of Barron’s journalism. In this role, she established and led the editorial development team and created several new editorial products. Before this, she was at the Financial Times, where she was a founding member of the audience engagement and communities teams. She’s a graduate of the London Business School and McGill University.

    Erin and Eric are both graduates this spring from Columbia’s joint master’s program in computer science and journalism. Erin previously worked at Microsoft, and Eric is a former data science fellow on the R&D team. To be updated on what R&D is up to, click here.

    WSJ Innovation
    John Schimmel has returned to the Journal as the Director of Engineering for Newsroom Innovation after two years at The New York Times, where he worked on NYTimes Beta / New Products and Ventures. In his prior role at the Journal, John worked on the Newsroom Development team helping to create dynamic insets, experiential stories, WSJ Pro and Live Coverage.

    And Pietro Passarelli is joining from the BBC News Labs Innovation team. Pietro is a product developer with a track record of creating tools for journalists as well as new editorial story formats. He is a former Knight-Mozilla fellow with Open News at Vox Media, in New York, where he worked on tools for making video production and post-production easier, such as www.autoEdit.io.

    The WSJ Innovation team will be running the Idea Portal to partner with many in the newsroom.

    We are still interviewing candidates for the Innovation Chief role, who will be a partner to John and Pietro as we move more quickly to test ideas and build prototypes. You can find information on that role here, as well as information on newsroom developer roles here. Please spread the word!

    Audience Voices and Community Team
    As you all know, we have overhauled our comments system and are seeing positive results. The Audience Voices team will be continuing to work to elevate the level of discourse and faciliate interaction with our audience.

    Staff members of the team are: Josh Rivera, the editor, who joined the Journal from the editorial board of USA Today and previously worked as a reporter for Univision Washington and El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico; Anne Michaud, a longtime journalist at Newsday and Crain’s New York Business; Carrie Reynolds, a former book editor and existing member of the Journal’s moderation team; Taylor Nakagawa, who worked in community interaction at TechCrunch; and Sarah Chacko, a former member of the Journal’s platforms team who was previously a reporter at The Hill.

    The Audience Voices team is interested in partnering with people who want to include the audience more in their work. We are currently developing some processes and tools for audience call-outs and working with WSJ+ on member events. To be updated on these initiatives click here.

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    New Working Paper: Media Reporting Is Good Predictor of Household Inflation Expectations https://www.dowjones.com/insights/media-reporting-is-good-predictor-of-household-inflation-expectations/ Tue, 09 Jul 2019 21:20:47 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=insight&p=17499 By: Simon Rodda Simon is a financial news veteran and institutional markets specialist at Dow Jones. A new working paper from a team of researchers at Norway’s central bank and the BI Norwegian Business School delivers fresh insights for macroeconomists as they grapple with aggregating estimates and forecasting U.S. inflation. Led by Leif Anders Thorsrud,

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    By: Simon Rodda

    Simon is a financial news veteran and institutional markets specialist at Dow Jones.

    A new working paper from a team of researchers at Norway’s central bank and the BI Norwegian Business School delivers fresh insights for macroeconomists as they grapple with aggregating estimates and forecasting U.S. inflation.

    Led by Leif Anders Thorsrud, this team already has a track record of gleaning valuable insights from macroeconomic trends by applying natural language processing to deep archives of news articles.

    In this latest work, “News-driven inflation expectations and information rigidities,” Thorsrud, together with colleagues Vegard Larsen and Julia Zhulanova, investigates how the media influences the process of forming expectations in U.S. households.

    The authors adopted a novel news-topic-based approach to demonstrate that the types of issues that the media choose to report on, e.g., fiscal policy, health and politics, are good predictors of households’ stated inflation expectations.

    Using this approach, they were able to cut through the media noise to document that the underlying time series properties of relevant news topics explain why household views may not shift in step with new information.

    Their model shows the degree to which information rigidities* or, more simply, knowledge gaps among households vary over time. In addition, the paper, substantiated by a deep archive of Dow Jones news and proprietary machine learning algorithms, provides robust and new evidence that highlights the role of the media in forming inflation expectations.

    There are real, human constraints to being fully informed, with competing demands on people’s time and the multiplicity of media, which act as potential frictions or rigidities. In response to such (obvious) constraints in our ability to process information, the paper aims to explore a fundamental consideration about the power of the media: When information flow is “overwhelming,” people may find it more convenient or comforting to delegate their information choices to professional news providers. In such a setting, the degree of information rigidity, or, alternatively, the degree of departure from full information, will be a function of how news is selected and broadcast by the media. In other words, the information we have is a function of the information the media provides us. If that information set is rich and informative, the degree of information rigidity will be low and vice versa.

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    More details on this Working Paper can be found on the Norwegian Business School website.

    *As Dr. Thorsrud explains, textbook economics rest on the assumption that people are fully informed about all economic events happening and that we make rational choices based on this information. Information rigidities are the departure from the “full information” component part of the textbook assumption.

    Resources

    News-driven inflation expectations and information rigidities
    Authors: Larsen, Vegard H.; Thorsrud, Leif Anders; Zhulanova, Julia
    23 April 2019

    The views expressed in the Working Paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Norges Bank. The research was conducted as part of the research activities at the Centre for Applied Macro and Petroleum economics (CAMP) at the BI Norwegian Business School.

     

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    News derived data empowering end-to-end data and technology solutions with Dow Jones and RavenPack https://www.dowjones.com/insights/ravenpack-case-study/ Mon, 06 May 2019 13:52:41 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=insight&p=17396 Background RavenPack is a provider of big data analytics for financial services. With its suite of products, tools and services, the company transforms vast amounts of unstructured content (news, social media and clients’ everyday textual content) into a strategic asset for financial applications. Clients, including top hedge funds and investment banks, can use RavenPack’s products

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    Background

    RavenPack is a provider of big data analytics for financial services. With its suite of products, tools and services, the company transforms vast amounts of unstructured content (news, social media and clients’ everyday textual content) into a strategic asset for financial applications.

    Clients, including top hedge funds and investment banks, can use RavenPack’s products to enhance returns, reduce risk or increase efficiency by incorporating the effects of public information into their models or workflows.

    With the RavenPack platform, users can query, visualize data and receive alerts on more than a quarter of a million entities, including companies, commodities, currencies and products. The platform also provides analytics on the roles that entities play in events and the relevance, novelty and sentiment of the mentions.

    Challenge

    RavenPack collects, stores, analyzes and disseminates a large amount of information in real time, serving a broad range of financial end-users. The needs of these users can vary just as widely.

    Kevin Crosbie, chief product officer at RavenPack says, “While systematic investors usually have a very large trading universe and consume data through APIs, discretionary investors have smaller portfolios and prefer to consume RavenPack data through alerts, visualization tools or downloads in Excel/CSV formats.”

    Solution

    Migrating to the cloud in 2017 enabled RavenPack to develop a self-service data platform. The platform makes RavenPack Analytics accessible, even for users who don’t have a background in statistical analysis, business intelligence or data mining.

    Dow Jones content supplies the raw data from which RavenPack generates key analytics, including entity and event detections, sentiment, relevance and novelty measurements.

    Clients consume this data as a real-time feed, a historical search or a platform that allows them to see the sentiment and events driving the entities they’re interested in. Dow Jones’s premium news service generates a large number of actionable events for RavenPack customers.

    RavenPack users find value in the data they derive from Dow Jones content because the source is fully accountable, reputable and balanced. “Dow Jones has global coverage, focuses on multiple asset classes and provides a low latency solution,” Crosbie says.

    Client recommendation

    The RavenPack team wholeheartedly recommend organizations seize the opportunity to formulate a partnership with Dow Jones, should a good fit and the right opportunity aligns.

    “A real point of difference is about the ability to access to the Dow Jones news archive dating back more than 30 years, together with our ability to seamlessly ingest news and event data in real-time. Additionally, it’s a pleasure to work with the Dow Jones team,” Crosbie notes.

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    Newsroom Strategy: Next Steps & New Jobs https://www.dowjones.com/press-room/newsroom-strategy-next-steps-new-jobs/ Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:18:13 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=press-room&p=17284 Over the past two years, we have remade the newsroom’s senior leadership team and our central editing structure, to focus our leadership and our workflows on growing our digital platforms while continuing to serve our print and Newswire subscribers. Throughout, we have taken steps to bolster our strategic planning for digital growth, most notably with

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    Over the past two years, we have remade the newsroom’s senior leadership team and our central editing structure, to focus our leadership and our workflows on growing our digital platforms while continuing to serve our print and Newswire subscribers. Throughout, we have taken steps to bolster our strategic planning for digital growth, most notably with the creation of a Newsroom Strategy area and the R&D Team.

    Today, we are happy to announce that we are creating additional newsroom departments and posting more than three dozen new jobs. These new teams will serve as our incubators for new technologies, audience growth, community and news innovation. They will create original content, stories and news features and be a resource for change across all our bureaus and areas of coverage.

    The slate of new jobs includes developers, designers, product managers, data specialists, and also, crucially, journalists. There are many new reporting jobs throughout these teams, and furthering our goals to find new ways to work together, the reporters will be seated directly with team members of many different skill sets. We are in need of several entrepreneurial leaders excited to forge ahead with change. And, importantly, for all of the positions, we’re seeking applicants with a journalistic sensibility and background, applicants who recognize and celebrate our already strong journalism and will be able to help us do more of it, for the right audiences, with the right tools, just as soon as we can.

    The new jobs are divided into five areas: Young Audiences, Membership Engagement, Newsroom Innovation, Audience Data, and R&D.

    Young Audiences: This multi-disciplinary department will be fiercely committed to growing emergent audiences — particularly young readers, expanding on the success our colleagues in Membership have had in growing our college subscriber audience. They will create original content for these audiences in traditional and new story formats; curate and package existing coverage for these audience groups; and work with other parts of the newsroom where there are pockets of reporters whose content gears itself toward these audiences. Their work will provide critical feedback for us more broadly on where the tastes of our future long-term audiences are heading. As this department focuses on young readers, another group will focus on exploring other new audiences.

    Membership Engagement: This department will have a laser focus on content-practice initiatives that will help us grow member engagement. One team within it will focus on headlines, tagging, packaging and SEO. Another will create new story formats and further develop existing content types, such as newsletters and rankings, in partnership with the newsroom as well as based on original reporting. And a third team will work to foster our ongoing conversation with our audience, exploring ways to bring readers together around our journalism, through the commenting system as well as through new formats they will create.

    Newsroom Innovation: This team will sort through, prioritize and execute on the excellent ideas being contributed to our newsroom Idea Portal, build out new features required by the other new teams we are creating and partner on important newsroom experiments with reporters and editors throughout the newsroom. They will bring engineering and product design expertise to bear on all of the newsroom’s ideas for new storytelling strategies, new coverage features and tests of new journalism products.

    Audience Data: With this team we intend to go to the next level in audience data analytics. This team will help develop new metrics, new audience segments and new audience insights. It will also develop predictive models that we can use to give different user groups the experiences that will be most valuable to them and partner with our technology peers in Dow Jones to design the data infrastructure we need for our future. This team will provide critical assistance in adding data science into our strategic thinking as we grow our audience.

    The R&D Team: This existing team will continue to be led by Francesco Marconi, our chief of Research & Development and will continue to report to Louise in the new structure. Since the team was set up last year, it has added multiple full-time data scientists who specialize in machine learning and artificial intelligence and has had several visiting fellows. The lab will now add an ML-focused engineer to help it as it develops more audience-facing and newsroom tools. The team has already had great impact: including launching the Idea Portal, carrying out groundbreaking research on artificial intelligence and “deep fake” videos, creating the gender pronoun tool and working on new features on our site to elevate the audience conversation about our stories.

    The duties currently performed by the Emerging Media and Audience & Analytics teams will be wrapped into this new structure, in different forms and under new reporting lines. We have already spoken with them about the impact of these coming changes.

    Cory Schouten, who has done a great job revamping our newsletters in the past year as well as launching new newsletters and a calendar experiment with the economics desk, will continue his work as our editor of newsletters.

    As these teams get going, they will work closely with the Product, Design and Engineering teams, who will provide some of the team members on a rotational basis. They will be essential links to our partners in Dow Jones, including the Dow Jones Innovation Lab, the consumer insights and data products teams, the membership growth teams and the technology team.

    These new departments are being set up and overseen by Louise, as part of her work as our editor of newsroom strategy, and you should email her if you are interested in learning more. She will hold a session about these changes in Central Park at 1 p.m. tomorrow (Hangout details will be circulated later). Not only do these expansions offer many exciting new jobs, they are intended to provide resources for partnering with many of you, something we have heard around the newsroom as being highly desired.

    All of these changes are central to our strategy: We will continue to be a must-read in our traditional coverage areas while branching into new areas and reaching new audiences. As we innovate, we will stay focused on our news mission as well as on the value we provide to our current — and future — audiences.

    We will continue to create news and enterprise journalism in the Journal’s signature way — coming at stories with rigorous evidence, a down-the-middle approach that leaves it up to our audience to decide what they think, and a high standard of creativity and excellence.

    And the changes we are announcing today will help put us at the forefront of the industry in the ways we approach growing new audiences, digital storytelling techniques and newsroom-driven innovation.

    Many thanks,
    Matt Murray and Louise Story

    You can view the new job postings below. They can also be found at wsj.jobs.

    Young Audiences Editor
    Young Voices Editor
    Reporter, Multiple Mediums 
    Product Designer 
    Newsroom Developer
    New Audiences Editor
    Editor, Membership Engagement
    SEO Editor
    Agenda Editor
    Reporter Lead/New Formats Editor
    Audience Voices and Community Editor
    Audience Voices Reporter
    Audience Voices Reporter, Nights & Weekends
    News Assistant
    Rankings Data Reporter
    Audience Interaction Producer, Video/Audio
    Audience Interaction Producer, Video/Audio, Nights/Weekends
    WSJ Newsroom Innovation Chief
    Newsroom Principal Engineer
    Web Software Engineer
    iOS Software Engineer
    Data Solutions Chief
    Data Engineer
    Data Scientist
    Audience Data Analyst
    Newsroom Machine Learning Engineer
    Editor, Emerging Processes
    Automation Editor

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    Steve Severinghaus
    Senior Director, Communications
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    Industry, Market, Portfolio Intelligence https://www.dowjones.com/insights/industry-market-portfolio-intelligence/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:56:25 +0000 https://djadmin.dowjones.com/dowjones/?post_type=insight&p=17017 Use Case: Increasing Investment Performance Through News and Derived Data Event-Driven Portfolio Impacts Hardly Managed Today Traditional active asset management approaches generally start with the strategic asset allocation addressing first the distribution of funds across asset classes and regions. They then move on to the tactical asset allocation to over- or underweight certain stocks or

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    Use Case: Increasing Investment Performance Through News and Derived Data

    Event-Driven Portfolio Impacts Hardly Managed Today

    Traditional active asset management approaches generally start with the strategic asset allocation addressing first the distribution of funds across asset classes and regions. They then move on to the tactical asset allocation to over- or underweight certain stocks or bonds, for instance. Such approaches typically rely on the fundamental analysis of countries and companies, on the analysis of historical market data and on other financial indicators, or, on a combination of both.

    However, the event-driven impact on investment portfolios can hardly be managed based on the analysis of historical market or fundamental data alone. To mitigate risks resulting from important—but by nature rare—events, asset managers need to constantly monitor evolving news stories around the world, related to single companies, whole industries or certain jurisdictions, for example. With more than one million news stories published on a daily basis, this is impossible to accomplish without a machine-augmented approach.

    Automated Generation of Asset Management Intelligence With Dow Jones DNA

    Dow Jones DNA provides standardized access via modern APIs, not only to an archive with more than one billion articles from over 8,000 sources, but also via DNA Stream to just published news articles in near real-time. All articles are delivered in machine-readable format and are tagged with comprehensive meta data based on Dow Jones Identity Identifier’s (DJID) industry and region taxonomies.

    The rich and vast data sources of DNA can be accessed via standard API calls from any programming language and deliver results that are already pre-processed for the efficient application of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms. Among others, the way results for API queries are retrieved, simplifies the creation of feature and label data for such algorithms. Against this background, DNA provides the ideal basis to augment asset management processes by automated, systematic news screening efforts.

    How Asset Managers Can Use DNA to Manage Event-Driven Portfolio Impacts

    Consider the following scenario.The Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of an institutional, equity-focused investment manager wants to improve their risk management with regard to impacts from important, rare events. They set up an internal project team which includes a portfolio manager, a financial analyst, a risk manager and a data engineer. The project’s goal is to implement an event-risk application which shows in near real-time emerging and evolving events that might impact the value of portfolio positions in certain industries or regions.

    To get started, the financial analyst creates prototypes for two different dashboards—one for the relevant industries, the other for the relevant regions—based on the DNA industry and region taxonomies. Relying on market capitalization data, the focus is on the historical correlation, the short-term correlation and the correlation under historical stress scenarios, such as during the crisis of 2007 and 2008. To this end, the correlation values are displayed as a heat map and are colored according to a blue-red color map that represents -1 by dark blue, 0 as white and +1 by dark red.

    Based on the two prototype dashboards from the financial analyst, the data engineer implements an application that retrieves news articles in near real-time from DNA Stream and processes these with NLP and ML algorithms. Using the results and the rich metadata attached to every article, the application categorizes events by industry and region. It also counts the number of articles related to any single event and every article by a factor based on its source. Finally, the application calculates a sentiment score for every article and aggregates sentiment scores per event. The data engineer makes sure that the algorithms account for typical problem areas, such as “double negation.”

    Together with the financial analyst, the data engineer combines the automated news processing with the prototype dashboards to arrive at the final user interface of the event-risk application. This graphical user interface, displaying the two correlation heat maps, allows switching between different correlation measures. In every cell of the two heat maps, three numbers are displayed: one for the number of events identified and tracked, one for the total number of relevant news articles and one showing an aggregate sentiment score. A click on any of these numbers allows portfolio and risk managers to drill down to single events, articles or sentiment scores.

    Once the technical features are implemented, the financial analyst and the data engineer demonstrate the application to the portfolio and risk manager of the team to gather their feedback. Both of them approve the implementation and start discussing how the insights gained from the new event-risk application can be used to react appropriately to new, potentially harmful events on the tactical, as well as even on the strategic asset allocation, level. They also discuss how to implement short-term hedging measures, such as buying put options for downside protection, given both a new relevant event, as well as the three different correlation measures between industries and regions.

    News data for industry, market and portfolio intelligence

    Pinpoint investment opportunities, allocate assets and manage portfolio risk with news derived data. DNA’s comprehensive global news databasetogether with fast, flexible delivery optionsallows you to identify event-driven impacts on investment portfolios that represent either opportunity signals or risks. Likewise, credit investors can easily monitor and predict impact of adverse credit events on their loan portfolios.

    Dow Jones DNA – Data, News & Analytics

    At a time when data fuels the professional world, Dow Jones DNA gives you data for AI and allows you to seamlessly connect datasets. One of the world’s most comprehensive licensed news datasets, DNA is designed to readily integrate with your organization’s augmented analytics in order to provide deep insights and automate business decisions.

    DNA is a cloud based Data-as-a-Service platform to help you leverage outside insights and increase the accuracy of your data outputs. You can:

    • Have confidence and reduce risk with news and data you can trust, from our 31+ year archive of proprietary and licensed news data with storage rights through contract life;
    • Rely on highly veracious data with 8,600+ sources in 28 languages from extensive regions, industries and topics;
    • Save time and increase productivity with well-structured metadata from our cleaned and labelled datasets. Features include tagged company codes on 200,000+ companies and standardized formatting of timestamps across 1.3bn articles; and
    • Scale and tailor the specifications and delivery method to best suit your data science teams. Our DNA Solutions Engineers are here to assist you integrate DNA.

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