Callaway to become top USA Today editor
CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- David Callaway, MarketWatch's top editor since 2000, will become editor-in-chief of USA Today later this month,
At USA Today, where he will be rejoining MarketWatch founder and USA Today Publisher Larry Kramer, Callaway will take charge of the overall content strategy of the news organization, with an emphasis on providing high-quality and engaging content across all platforms, Gannett (GCI) said.
Kramer -- who founded MarketWatch in 1997 and hired Callaway as the site's managing editor two years later -- assumed his role at the Gannett-owned USA Today in May.
Callaway came to MarketWatch following a stint at Bloomberg News, where he led a team of financial reporters throughout Europe covering the banking, investment-banking and asset-management businesses. Previously he was a columnist at the Boston Herald, where he co-wrote a daily financial column on comings and goings in the Boston business district.
During his tenure at MarketWatch, Callaway oversaw the financial website's coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks; the Enron and WorldCom scandals; AOL's disastrous acquisition of Time Warner Inc., the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent worldwide financial collapse of 2008; the Bernie Madoff trial; and numerous other major financial stories.
He led MarketWatch staffers through several periods of transition, including the site's acquisition by Dow Jones in 2005, followed by
In recent years, MarketWatch, with 17 million unique users, has been honored several times as a top large business-focused website by Editor & Publisher, Media Week, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and other publications and organizations.
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