Barron's

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Barron's

April 5, 2021 cover of Barron's
Editor in Chief	David Cho
Categories	Business
Frequency	Weekly
Total circulation (2013)	305,513 [1]
Founder	Clarence W. Barron
First issue	1921;104 years ago (1921)
Company	Dow Jones & Company (News Corp)
Country	United States
Based in	New York City, New York, U.S.
Website	www.barrons.com
ISSN	1077-8039
OCLC	29933161

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. ^{[2] [3]}

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.

Features

Features in the publication include:

• Market Week – coverage of the previous week's market activity ^{[4] [5]}
• Barron's Roundtable – Posts from noted investors such as Bill Gross, Mario Gabelli, Abby Joseph Cohen, Felix Zulauf, and Marc Faber ^{[6] [7]}
• 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. ^[8]
• Top Financial Advisors – America's top financial advisors ^{[9] [10]}

History

The magazine has been published by Dow Jones & Company since 1921. ^[11] The magazine is named after Clarence W. Barron, ^[12] 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. ^[13]

Ad for Barron's, 1975

Barrons.com ^{[14] [15]} was launched in 1996 as part of WSJ.com. In 2005, following "its first redesign in nearly 11 years" ^[16] Barron's relaunched as a standalone product, ^[17] months after their first Financial Advisor conference. ^[18]

In September 2008, Barron's acquired the Winner's Circle Organization. ^[19] 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. ^{[20] [21]}

Employees

Famous former and current editors, publishers, and journalists of the magazine include:

• Robert Bleiberg, publisher (1982–1989), editor (1954–1981) ^[22]
• Alan Abelson, columnist ^[23]
• Clarence W. Barron, "father of financial journalism" and founder of the newspaper

See also

• William Peter Hamilton

References

1. "Alliance for Audited Media Snapshot Report – 6/30/2013". Alliance for Audited Media. June 30, 2013. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017.
2. Vogel, Harold L. (2014). Entertainment Industry Economics: A Guide for Financial Analysis. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1107075290.
3. Shefrin, Hersh (2002). Beyond Greed and Fear: Understanding Behavioral Finance. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0195161211.
4. Google Scholar: Netanel, N. W. (2008). "New media in old bottles? Barron's". George Washington Law Review. SSRN   1183167.
5. "This Week". Barron's.
6. Google Scholar: H. Desai; P. C. Jain (1995). "An analysis of the recommendations of the "superstar" money managers at Barron's annual roundtable". The Journal of Finance. Vol. 50, no. 4. pp. 1257–1273. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6261.1995.tb04057.x. performance of .. Barron's Annual Roundtable
7. "Roundtable". Barron's.
8. "Best Online Brokers". Barron's.
9. "Barron's: Comdisco books "very complicated"". Computerworld . September 3, 1984. p. 103. John Keefe, a stock analyst who follows the company, said ... very complicated, and the Barron's examination of ...
10. "Top Financial Advisors". Barron's.
11. Barron's (1921–1942). OCLC   712794404.
12. "CLARENCE W. BARRON, PUBLISHER, IS DEAD; Head of The Wall St. Journal a Victim of Catarrhal Jaundice at 73 in Battle Creek. NOTED FINANCIAL FIGURE A Writer on World Fiscal Topics —Body Will Be Taken to His Old Home in Boston". The New York Times . October 3, 1928.
13. "ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Barron's (1921–2010) – Databases – UW-Madison Libraries". search.library.wisc.edu. Retrieved April 2, 2025.
14. "Barron's' to bow on Web". Advertising Age . June 28, 1996.
15. "Barron's Videos". wsj.com.
16. "Barron's gets a redesign". Advertising Age . May 17, 2005.
17. January 2006
18. 2005: "Best of Best Meet at Barron's Winner's Circle Conference for Financial Advisors; Barron's First-Ever Event Yields Insights into Industry Best Practices" (Press release). December 6, 2005. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
19. "Barron's acquires The Winner's Circle Organization". American City Business Journals . September 25, 2008.
20. "Dow Jones Media Group stitches corporate work and lifestyle together". April 9, 2018. The current iteration of Penta is ...
21. "Barron's Magazine to Launch New Section Providing Trusted Advice for Pentamillionaires" (Press release). GlobeNewswire. September 24, 2009.
22. Grant, James (November 7, 1997). "The Great Contrarian". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved October 9, 2021.
23. Martin, Douglas (May 11, 2013). "Alan Abelson, Who at Barron's Was a Thorn in Wall Street's Side, Dies at 87". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved October 9, 2021.

External links

• Official website