By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 5/06 4:48pm

Promotions

Jonathan Krim (Photo via Twitter).

Jonathan Krim Will Head The Wall Street Journal‘s San Francisco Bureau

Jonathan Krim has been named the technology Editor and San Francisco Bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, announced a memo that went out this afternoon. The appointment seems to be part of the Journal‘s stratedgy to ramp up their tech coverage.

“The Journal’s unrivalled global reach makes us uniquely placed to produce the most comprehensive, lively and authoritative reporting of this most important business section,” the newsroom memo said. ”From breaking news in real time on some of the best-known companies in the world to providing the most insightful analysis of where tech is headed to providing fast and in-depth reporting on tech finance and innovation, Jonathan will lead an expanded team to ever greater journalistic dominance.” Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/09/12 7:10pm

off the record

Mansion

WSJ’s New Real Estate

A man’s home may be his castle, but for Wall Street Journal readers, home is Mansion, the newspaper’s aspirationally titled Friday shelter section, which debuted last week. Because houses are all well and good, but, given the choice, aren’t mansions better?

“We all like to think of our home as a mansion, even if it is a humble abode, and we all have the license to aspire, so we have created Mansion to be the home of both aspiration and real estate realization,” WSJ managing editor Robert Thomson said in a statement announcing the launch.

The section bears a subhead with a quote from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet that is uttered by the titular heroine about midway through the play.

“O, I have bought the mansion of a love, But not possess’d it,” reads the subhead. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 10/12/11 4:47pm

conflicts of interest

The Wall Street Journal Europe in Bed with Circulation Booster

In the wake of the News of the World phone hacking saga, News Corp. appears to be serious about cleaning up its act.

Andrew Langhoff, publisher of The Wall Street Journal Europe, resigned yesterday after an internal inquiry revealed that Journal editorial content could have been influenced by a business-side relationship, reports the New York Times.

The paper’s circulation department had an arrangement with Netherlands consulting firm Executive Learning Partnership, which it had featured twice in its “Special Reports” section, in October 2010 and March of this year. Read More

By Matt Chaban 6/23/11 9:17pm

Road Rage

Don't stop us now, we're having such a good time, we're having a ball.

Bicycle Backlash Over, Says, Uh… The Journal?

For the past year or so, The Observer, along with the rest of the press corps, has been chronicling the city’s, and the press corps’, reaction to our burgeoning bicycle culture. The Post, obviously, has been highly critical, to say the least, if not downright damnatory. The News has, understandably, followed suit. Even The Times has been playing against type, turning its back on its pinko-brownstone readership to criticize everything from a–gasp–European-style bike share program to streets czarina JSK (rhymes with DSK!). Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/01/11 12:19am

Softball Report

Highbrow Softball Heats Up: Media, Museum, and Broadway Leagues Go to Bat

Oil those gloves: the softball season of Manhattan’s typically nebbishy and not entirely athletically inclined media and arts institutions is now underway. What is in theory a casual morale-building exercise can result in either a yielding of institutional pride or a sad display of negligible athletic skills. Or both.

Recently, two high-profile News Corp. properties Read More