Template:Short description Template:Hatnote group Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox magazine Barron's (stylized in all caps) is an American weekly magazine and newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp, since 1921.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Founded as Barron's National Financial Weekly in 1921 by Clarence W. Barron (1855–1928) as a sister publication to The Wall Street Journal, Barron's covers U.S. financial companies, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a summary of the previous week's market activity as well as news, reports, and an outlook on the week to come.
FeaturesEdit
Features in the publication include:
- Market Week – coverage of the previous week's market activity<ref>Google Scholar: Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Barron's Roundtable – Posts from noted investors such as Bill Gross, Mario Gabelli, Abby Joseph Cohen, Felix Zulauf, and Marc Faber<ref>Google Scholar: Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Best Online Brokers – A ranking of the top online trading brokerage firms. Criteria include trading experience and technology, usability, mobile, range of offerings, research amenities, portfolio analysis & report, customer service & education, and costs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Top Financial Advisors – America's top financial advisors<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
HistoryEdit
The magazine has been published by Dow Jones & Company since 1921.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The magazine is named after Clarence W. Barron,<ref name="Clarence.NYT">Template:Cite news</ref> an influential figure to Dow Jones and a founder of modern financial journalism. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal. In 1990, color was introduced to the magazine and full color in January 1996. Barron's introduced a two-section version of the paper on March 7, 1994.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Barrons.com<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was launched in 1996 as part of WSJ.com. In 2005, following "its first redesign in nearly 11 years"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Barron's relaunched as a standalone product,<ref>January 2006</ref> months after their first Financial Advisor conference.<ref>2005: Template:Cite press release</ref>
In September 2008, Barron's acquired the Winner's Circle Organization.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In September 2009, Barron's launched Penta as a new section. The section targets "penta-millionaires" (individuals with at least $5 million in assets) with financial advice.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite press release</ref>
EmployeesEdit
Famous former and current editors, publishers, and journalists of the magazine include:
- Robert Bleiberg, publisher (1982–1989), editor (1954–1981)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Alan Abelson, columnist<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Clarence W. Barron, "father of financial journalism" and founder of the newspaper