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Want to know which Wall Street Journal reporters write most often
for the paper's prime real state - Page One and/or section fronts -- in order to
increase your pitching odds? Maybe you're curious how the reporter on your beat
stacks up against his or her colleagues. What information can be gleaned:
NewsBios now offers customized reports beginning at $95.95 generated from this exclusive database. Additionally, the performance of individual Wall Street Journal reporters is now included free-of-charge with every updated or custom NewsBio of WSJ reporters as well as many of our existing profiles. These WSJ Reporters Hold Claim to the Paper’s Prime Real Estate More than 900 total bylines appeared on the front page of the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal in the six-month period ending March 31, 2007.
Of
those whose bylines graced the Journal’s front page, just eight reporters can
boast that they wrote or contributed to ten or more page one articles. Washington D.C.-based Jackie Calmes, a Journal veteran who writes on the intersection of politics and economics, led her colleagues not in shear number of Page One bylines but in terms of their NewsBios’ weighted value. (Since October 1, 2006, NewsBios has tracked each and every reporter whose byline appears in The Wall Street Journal – including reporters for sibling news organizations such as MarketWatch and Dow Jones News Service. The NewsBios databases note each reporter’s total byline count, location of bylines, and “byline points” based upon a proprietary weighting system to separate ordinary bylines from high-visibility bylines.) Calmes posted five solo Page One stories and five additional co-written pieces. Her efforts just edged out colleague Mark Whitehouse, who had the same number of solo front page articles but fewer shared bylines. While comparing bylines isn't the only measure of influence for reporters at a news organization, it is an important component. Editors at most major news organizations keep track of similar byline statistics, which can be used in job performance reviews and determining beat assignments. Other Journal reporters accruing double-digit bylines or contributions between October 1 and March 31 were Yochi J. Dreazen, Greg Jaffe, Charles Forelle, Guy Chazan, Greg Ip and Dennis K. Berman. Rounding out the list of 25 top Page One point gathers:
Note: NewsBios' byline databases are based on actual page-by-page counts of the Monday through Saturday print edition and may reflect regional variations.Our counts are also subject to unintentional human error. NewsBios clients who order profiles of WSJ reporters are now able to compare each journalist’s editorial production and influence to all other reporters at the paper. Above Photo: Grep Ip - June 2007
Options Backdating Scandal Proves Fodder for October 2006 WSJ Bylines
More than 700 individual bylines appeared in the U.S. edition of The Wall
Street Journal in October 2006.
How did the reporter covering your company or clients stack up against his or
her colleagues for number and quality of bylines?
Effective immediately, every update or custom
NewsBio
of active WSJ reporters will include insights not only into the background and
reporting of the individual journalist, but also empirical data comparing the
WSJ reporter to all of his or her colleagues.
While comparing bylines isn’t the only measure of influence for reporters at a
news organization, it can yield valuable insights about which journalists get
“prime real estate” in a publication and how often.
In October 2006, for example, no reporter at the Journal had more Page One
bylines than
James Bandler
and
Charles Forelle,
who have been covering the options backdating scandals. Bandler shared
frontpage bylines four times, while Forelle shared three frontpage bylines and
also was noted at the bottom of a fourth article.
Did you know that in the competition of more than 700 journalists to have
their stories spotlighted, even 4 shared bylines in a month was enough to best
everyone else?
When NewsBios assigns “weight” to bylines, with individual bylines being
“worth” more than shared bylines, then Bandler still leades the October Page
One ranking, with 8 points. Also weighing in with 8 points was
Jackie Calmes,
followed by
Yochi J. Dreasen,
Pui-Wing Tam,
Kevin J. Delaney,
Greg Jaffe,
Charles Forelle,
Bill Spindle
and
Amy Schatz,
all with 6 Page One points.
Among the most prolific byline generators at the paper overall for October are
Dennis K. Berman
(21);
Henny Sender
(15),
Aaron Lucchetti
(15),
Neil King Jr.
(13) and
Gregory Zukerman
(11).
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Comparing
bylines isn’t the only measure of influence for reporters at a news
organization, but it can yield valuable insights about which journalists get
“prime real estate” in a publication and how often.
Page
One of the Journal remains one of the most influential corners of news real
estate in the business and financial journalism profession.
