History
MarketWatch formerly operated in partnership with CBS News. Dow Jones acquired it in January 2005 for $530 million and News Corp. acquired Dow Jones two years later.
MarketWatch was founded by Larry Kramer in 1997 and Kramer hired David Callaway as the site’s managing editor from Bloomberg two years later. Kramer became USA Today publisher in May 2012 and hired Callaway from MarketWatch to become editor-in-chief of the Gannett-owned newspaper in July 2012.
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