NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Dow Jones & Company today announced general managers for The Wall Street Journal Online, Barron's Online (www.barrons.com) and MarketWatch.com, and named key appointments in marketing and advertising operations within The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (formerly Dow Jones Online).
Effective immediately:
* Daniel Bernard, vice president of marketing for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, is now general manager of The Wall Street Journal Online (WSJ.com). * Gail Griffin, general manager of The Wall Street Journal Online, is now the first dedicated general manager for Barron's Online. * Jim Bernard, vice president of strategy and market intelligence in Dow Jones's Enterprise Media Group, is now general manager of MarketWatch.com. * Matt Ellsworth, advertising solutions manager for Yahoo! Finance, is now vice president of marketing at The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. * Sandra Baez, director of advertising operations at MarketWatch.com, is now vice president of advertising operations at The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
"Daniel, Gail, Jim, Matt and Sandra bring high appreciation for innovation, strong passion for our brands and impressive track records in digital media," said Gordon McLeod, president of The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. "I'm excited to have their leadership and entrepreneurial spirit as we continue to pioneer creative solutions for advertisers that align with the award-winning editorial content and innovative tools that differentiate WSJ.com, Barron's Online and MarketWatch.com."
Bios
Daniel Bernard, general manager of The Wall Street Journal Online, had been The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's vice president of marketing since July 2006. He previously served at Reuters as global head of advertising development and product design, at CBS MarketWatch (MarketWatch.com's predecessor) as director of advertising development, and at CBS Television as a research analyst.
Gail Griffin, general manager of Barron's Online, had served as general manager of The Wall Street Journal Online since 2005. She started at Dow Jones in 2001 and has worked in several product development roles for WSJ.com. Previously, she was managing editor and vice president of product development for TheStreet.com and an editor at Dow Jones Newswires and The Virginian-Pilot.
Jim Bernard, general manager of MarketWatch.com, had been the vice president of strategy and market intelligence in Dow Jones's Enterprise Media Group since January 2007. Previously at Dow Jones, he was vice president of strategy and planning for the content licensing group. Earlier, at CBS MarketWatch, he was vice president of sales and service and director of the media division. He was a sales manager at the University of Minnesota Press and marketing manager at JDL Technologies.
Matt Ellsworth, vice president of marketing at The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, was most recently advertising solutions manager at Yahoo! Finance. He was previously director of sales development for Dow Jones Integrated Solutions, associate director of sales development at Business 2.0 magazine, and the technology and telecom senior category manager for The Wall Street Journal.
Sandra Baez, vice president of advertising operations at The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, had served as director of advertising operations at MarketWatch.com since December 2001. She was previously director of traffic at FOX News Digital Media and senior ad master at CMP Media.
About The Wall Street Journal Digital Network
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network is comprised of business and financial news websites including The Wall Street Journal Online, the largest paid subscription site on the Web with 983,000 subscribers; Barron's Online, the site of America's premier financial weekly with 102,000 subscribers; MarketWatch.com, a leading investing and financial news site with 100 journalists in 10 bureaus around the world; and AllThingsD.com, a new site devoted to news, analysis and opinion on technology, the Internet and media. Marketers seeking to target business decision-makers or affluent and influential individuals can reach more than 15 million unduplicated, unique visitors per month across The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
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