L. Gordon Crovitz

Crovitz is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Chicago. He received a law degree as a Rhodes Scholar from Wadham College of Oxford University and later a law degree from Yale Law School.

In 1981, he started working as an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal. The following year he became the founding editorial page editor for The Wall Street Journal Europe, based in Brussels. In 1986 he was appointed to The Wall Street Journal's editorial board. He earned a Gerald Loeb Award Honorable Mention for Commentary{{cite web|title=Historical Winners List|url=https://www.anderson.ucla.edu/news-and-events/signature-events/gerald-loeb-awards/winners/historical-winners|website=UCLA Anderson School of Management|access-date=January 31, 2019}} and the 1990 Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary.{{Cite web |url=https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/award-winning-journalism-5647.html |title=Award-Winning Journalism |last=Olson |first=Walter |authorlink=Walter Olson |date=September 1, 1977 |website=Manhattan Institute |access-date=February 5, 2019}}{{Cite news |title=Two Times business section reporters win Loeb Award |date=May 22, 1990 |work=Los Angeles Times |page=D2 |issn=0458-3035}} In 1992 he became the publisher for the Dow Jones's Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and in 1996 was named the managing director for Dow Jones Telerate's Asia/Pacific region as well as chairman of Dow Jones in Asia. In 1997-98 he was named vice president of planning and development for Dow Jones.{{cite web|url= http://www.nma.co.uk/Logon/ResourceBarrier.aspx?RequiredServices=17,%7C&PipelinedPage=/Articles/23520/Charging+ahead.html&PipelinedQueryString=liArticleID%3d23520|title= Charging ahead|accessdate= 2009-04-16|author= Gareth Jones|date= 2005-03-17|publisher= New Media Age|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20140404130617/https://econsultancy.com/nma-archive|archivedate= 2014-04-04}} [http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-19169885_ITM Alt URL]

Since leaving Dow Jones, he has co-founded and sold a start-up technology company and has become a director and advisor to several companies, including technology-based media companies. He is a co-founder of Journalism Online, whose Press+ service enables news publishers to generate subscription revenues for their content on web sites and through tablets, e-readers and mobile devices.[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/business/media/15brill.html?ref=business Media Executives Plan Online Service to Charge for Content] The New York Times, April 15, 2009 Journalism Online, founded in 2009, was sold to RR Donnelley in 2011 for a reported $45 million.{{Cite web|url=https://gigaom.com/2011/03/24/419-price-tag-for-journalism-online-could-go-as-high-as-45-million/|title=Price Tag For Journalism Online Could Go As High As $45 Million|first=Staci D.|last=Kramer|date=March 24, 2011|website=gigaom.com}} Google had launched a product in 2011 to compete with Press+, called Google One Pass, but shut the service down in April, 2012, with Press+ agreeing to grandfather its former customers.{{cite web|first=Sarah|last= Marshall|title=Press+ positioning itself to target Google One Pass customers|url=http://www.journalism.co.uk/news/press-plus-taking-google-one-pass-customers/s2/a548921/|date=24 April 2012|work=journalism.co.uk}} Crovitz was an early investor in Business Insider.Schiffrin, Anya. "AI Startups and the Fight Against Online Disinformation". German Marshall Fund of the United States, 2019. p. 12. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep21240. Accessed 17 Feb. 2024.

While at Dow Jones, he led the redesign of The Wall Street Journal in January 2007, repositioning the print edition to focus on "what the news means," with the web edition addressing "what's happening right now," with the aim of rethinking what a newspaper should be in the Digital Age. He turned around the financial performance of the Journal to become strongly profitable after earlier losing money. He also led the creation of the online news service Factiva, which he chaired for several years, and initiated the acquisition of publicly traded MarketWatch as well as specialist services Private Equity Analyst, VentureOne and VentureWire, London-based news franchise eFinancial News and Frankfurt-based newswire VWD. He oversaw the growth of The Wall Street Journal Online to the world's largest paid subscription news web site, with over one million paying subscribers at the end of 2007. Earlier in his career at Dow Jones, he served as the corporate vice president for planning and strategy; in 1998, he helped sell the Telerate division and helped craft a three-year plan for the company focused on growing Internet revenues. He was editor and publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong, doubling revenues and aged 22 years, was founding editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels.{{Citation needed|date=April 2009}}

In March 2018, Gordon Crovitz and Steven Brill, partnered to form a new for-profit company, NewsGuard,{{Cite web|url=https://newsguardtechnologies.com/|title=NewsGuard Technologies|access-date=2021-04-29|archive-date=2018-07-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180723182738/https://newsguardtechnologies.com/|url-status=dead}} which claims to fight "fake news" by providing reliability ratings for over 7,500 U.S. websites to help online readers distinguish between legitimate news sources and those allegedly designed to spread misinformation. NewsGuard was launched on August 23, 2018.{{cite news |last1=Lapowsky |first1=Issue |title=NewsGuard Wants to "Fight Fake News" With Humans, Not Algorithms. Its own independence is albeit rather questionable.|url=https://www.wired.com/story/newsguard-extension-fake-news-trust-score/ |access-date=24 August 2018 |publisher=WIRED |date=August 23, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Fischer |first1=Sara |title=NewsGuard launches first product with help from Microsoft |url=https://www.axios.com/newsguard-launches-first-product-2143fc9e-470f-44b6-b8f1-6006646d26db.html |access-date=24 August 2018 |publisher=Axios |date=August 23, 2018}}

He married Anne Alstott (a professor at Yale Law School) on December 7, 1986.{{cite web|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/08/style/louis-gordon-crovitz-weds-anne-l-alstott.html|title= Louis Gordon Crovitz Weds Anne L. Alstott|accessdate= 2009-04-16|date= 1986-12-06|work= New York Times}} He is married to Minky Worden, media director for Human Rights Watch; they have three sons.{{cite web|url= http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/11/21/gordoncrovitz/|title= L. Gordon Crovitz: Publisher of the Wall Street Journal|accessdate= 2009-04-16|date= 2006-11-21|publisher= ScribeMedia.org}}

Crovitz has written many controversial editorials. In July 2012, he argued that Xerox-Parc's development of the Ethernet protocol meant that the private sector, not the government, created the Internet.{{cite web|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518|title= Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?|accessdate= 2012-07-24|date= 2012-07-22|publisher= Wall Street Journal}} Crovitz cited a book by Michael Hiltzik to support this argument but Hiltzik himself rebutted the claim.{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-mo-who-invented-internet-20120723,0,5052169.story|title= So, who really did invent the Internet?|accessdate= 2012-07-23|date= 2012-07-23|work= Los Angeles Times}} Crovitz's claims were also rejected as "revisionist" by Vint Cerf, co-inventor of the TCP/IP networking protocols that laid the foundations for the modern internet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/no-credit-for-uncle-sam-in-creating-net-vint-cerf-disagrees/|title=No credit for Uncle Sam in creating Net? Vint Cerf disagrees|last=Cooper|first=Charles|website=CNET|language=en|access-date=2019-01-23}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311024531/http://www.forbes.com/finance/mktguideapps/personinfo/FromMktGuideIdPersonTearsheet.jhtml?passedMktGuideId=95113 Profile by Forbes]
• [http://kara.allthingsd.com/20071207/the-crazy-cousins-thank-gordon-crovitz/ Profile by AllThingsDigital]
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/technology/24marketwatch.html Profile by New York Times]
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• [http://www.c-span.org/video/?195696-1/qa-gordon-crovitz C-SPAN Q&A interview with Crovitz, December 31, 2006]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20061208111315/http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/dec2006/db20061206_028007.htm Profile by Business Week]
• [http://www.scribemedia.org/2008/06/13/eft-gordon-crovitz/ Interview on his post WSJ career]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071115204504/http://politicscentral.com/2007/01/19/the_glenn_and_helen_show_gordo.php Podcast by Glenn Reynolds]
• [http://www.iht.com/articles/1992/03/25/revi.php Profile by International Herald Tribune]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/feb/04/mondaymediasection.wallstreetjournal Profile by Guardian]
• [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/01/06/ccwall06.xml Profile by Daily Telegraph]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/marketreport/2991563/Nestl-talks-leave-Cadbury-with-a-bitter-taste.html Daily Telegraph]

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