1. Sarah Cottle appointed GM of Dow Jones Energy. 2. She will manage news and data offerings in energy markets. 3. Cottle's leadership comes amid complex geopolitical and market shifts. 4. Her background includes key roles at S&P Global and Bloomberg. 5. Cottle aims to enhance proprietary insights for energy market players.
Cottle's experience may lead to improved market positioning for Dow Jones energy offerings, benefiting NWS's overall value.
Cottle's appointment is critical for capitalizing on energy market trends, directly enhancing NWS’s portfolio relevance.
Strategic insights and data enhancements will gradually unfold, likely strengthening NWS in the evolving energy landscape.
New Leader Ushers Growing Energy Business Into Next Chapter
Dow Jones today announced the appointment of Sarah Cottle as executive vice president and general manager of Dow Jones Energy. In this role, Cottle will be responsible for managing the company's growing roster of leading news, data and analysis offerings for the energy, chemical and environmental commodity markets which includes OPIS, a Dow Jones company, Chemical Market Analytics, PetroChem Wire, McCloskey, A2i Systems and Eco-Movement. She joins the company today and reports to Almar Latour, CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
"Sarah will be critical to navigating a particularly dynamic time in this fast-moving and complex marketplace," said Latour. "Reliable, proprietary energy data—from fossil fuels to nuclear to renewables—is incredibly valuable to leaders and investors across industries."
An accomplished executive, Cottle joins Dow Jones from S&P Global where she was most recently GM and SVP, Global Head of Data and Insights for the S&P Global Market Intelligence business and prior, spent eight years at S&P Global Platts helping customers navigate dynamic energy and commodity markets. In those roles and other senior management positions, she scaled news, data and analytics, as well as advisory businesses and events. Before S&P Global, Cottle led editorial teams at ICIS, a global market intelligence provider, Bloomberg and CNBC. Her career began in journalism as a markets reporter for Dow Jones in Singapore, where she covered commodities across Asia Pacific before leading global energy coverage from London and reporting on telecoms, media and technology from Paris for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
"It's an exciting time to rejoin Dow Jones as we navigate fast-evolving markets, a complex geopolitical landscape and the transformative power of AI," said Cottle. "These forces are fundamentally reshaping the energy business and I look forward to providing our customers the proprietary data and insights to help them make decisions."
About Dow Jones
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS, NWSA, ASX: NWS, NWSLV)).
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