MarketWatch Lays Off Staff

Several longtime staffers let go

Add Dow Jones’ MarketWatch to the parade of media companies laying off staff lately.

A spokeswoman for the business site confirmed it’s trimmed a number of its 90-person news staff. The rep wouldn’t give a number, but a knowledgeable source said the total was 13, or 14 percent, generally longtime employees and union members.

Many had been hired by David Callaway, the longtime editor who left last year to become editor in chief of USA Today and was replaced by Jonathan Krim.

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