Dow Jones has employed M. Scott Havens as its first chief development officer and world head of shopper, a newly created function that underscores the corporate’s push to speed up subscription development and develop shopper income throughout its portfolio of enterprise publications.
Havens will oversee retail subscription development and different shopper income streams for The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and Investor’s Business Daily, whereas additionally main the launch of recent consumer-facing initiatives. He will report on to Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour, be a part of the chief management workforce, and begin within the function at the start of 2026.
The appointment, introduced internally on Wednesday, comes at a second when Dow Jones is leaning into enlargement quite than retrenchment, an more and more unusual posture within the media trade.