New CEO at Dow Jones rebuilding top team in key commercial and editorial positions to align with his business strategy
Intense focus on editorial leadership vacuum at Barron's Group, made more personal as the CEO was previously the publisher
Internal HR & DEI team keen to use the process to map diverse talent in financial journalism - if not for the role, then for pipelining/bench strength
GOALS
Appoint a world-class journalist with experience leading a global newsroom of scale and driving digital/data-first content strategy
Hire a digital-first leader who would innovate on content and help drive new products
Find someone capable of straddling 'hands-on' editorship and external-facing thought leadership – a heavyweight brand ambassador with key audience segments (i.e. wealth managers, family offices, HNWIs) who would help a once feisty title regain its mojo
PLACEMENT
David Cho, Editor-In-Chief, Barron's
David Cho is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with a stellar 20-year career at The Washington Post, latterly as Business Editor.
An exemplary reporter, he made his name during the 2008 financial crisis, breaking a series of exclusives including the government bail-out of Lehman Bros. A digital-first editor, he drove audience growth through agenda-setting journalism and expanded an industry-leading business desk.
