Dow Jones Newswires Adds Hedge Fund Manager and Financial Services Expert to Editorial Team
April 28 2009 - 4:14AM
PR Newswire (US)
NEW YORK, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Dow Jones & Company, a News
Corporation company (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV;
http://www.newscorp.com/), today announced two new editorial hires
in the London and New York newsrooms of Dow Jones Newswires. Paul
Sharma, based in London, joins as a telecommunications, media and
technology columnist and Donna Childs, based in New York, joins as
a financial services columnist. "The appointments of Paul and Donna
are part of our overarching strategy to enhance our editorial teams
with top industry talent. We are drawing on the hedge fund and
banking communities to deepen Dow Jones's reporting and commentary
on companies, industries and events for investment bankers and
corporate advisors," said Adam Smallman, global managing editor for
investment banking coverage at Dow Jones Newswires. "During this
time of great change in markets, our editorial focus is firmly on
delivering to investment bankers the intelligence that powers deals
and transactions. With their industry experience, Paul and Donna
will offer a unique perspective on firms, sectors and events for
our investment banker readership." Mr. Sharma has 20 years of
experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Dow Jones,
he was a partner at a London-based hedge fund, Cheyne Capital
Management, where he managed a telecommunications value fund. Prior
to that, he was the director of telecommunications sales at HSBC
and spent four years as vice president and lead telecommunications
analyst at J.P. Morgan in London. Mr. Sharma earned a Master of
Arts in Chemistry from Oxford University and Master of Science
degrees in Molecular Biology and Telecommunications from the
University of London. Before joining Dow Jones, Ms. Childs led the
microfinance firm Childs Capital LLC, which she founded in 1998.
Prior to this, she was president and chief operating officer of ERC
Financial Market Products in New York, an investment banker in the
financial institutions group of Goldman Sachs and a director at
Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich. Ms. Childs has won multiple
awards throughout her career, including the National Association of
Women Business Owners' '2007 Woman Business Owner of the Year'. She
was named one of the '40 under 40' rising stars of New York in 2005
by Crain's New York Business. She has also authored books on
disaster preparedness and recovery, the latest of which, 'Prepare
for the Worst, Plan for the Best' is in its second edition. Fluent
in French and German, Ms. Childs has a Bachelor of Science degree
in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University and
an MBA from Columbia Business School. Mr. Sharma and Ms. Childs,
whose hires are effective immediately, will report to Adam
Smallman, global managing editor for investment banking and Arindam
Nag, deputy managing editor respectively. Dow Jones Newswires is a
part of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group, which is a division
within Dow Jones & Company. ABOUT DOW JONES Dow Jones &
Company (http://www.dowjones.com/) is a News Corporation company
(Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com/). Dow
Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information
services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street
Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones
Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow
Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group
operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50%
of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to
radio stations in the U.S. DATASOURCE: Dow Jones & Company
CONTACT: Konstantin Shishkin of Walek & Associates for Dow
Jones, +1-212-590-0532, Web Site: http://www.dowjones.com/
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