Almar Latour
CEO, Dow Jones; Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Almar Latour is CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Prior to this, he was publisher of Barron’s Group and executive vice president of Dow Jones. Previously, Latour was executive editor of WSJ and Dow Jones and editor in chief of WSJ and Dow Jones in Asia, where he grew its digital footprint to include Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia, and expanded the Chinese edition. Earlier in his career, he was managing editor of WSJ online, bureau chief overseeing tech coverage in New York, and a staff reporter in New York, London, Stockholm, and Brussels. Latour began his career as a news assistant at WSJ’s Washington, D.C., bureau.
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