Newsmart

Newsmart is a digital-learning service, wholly owned by Dow Jones & Company, that uses news content from The Wall Street Journal as a vehicle for teaching business English. It is available globally as a subscription-based 'Software-as-a-service' (Saas) to both individual consumers and institutions.
Current Team
Newsmart is an example of, and an advocate for, distributed development amongst software teams , sometimes known as the 'remote team' model. It's core operational processes and value proposition (daily content publishing, exercise creation and digital product development) are distributed across its strategic partners (Castle based in Russia and the USA and ELTJam based in Europe and the USA) and a small core team of permanent employees based in London.
The core team currently consists of:
* Spencer Piggott (formerly News UK and BBC Sport) - General Manager
* Paul Jackson (former Head of Product for The Times and The Sunday Times and publisher of Pivot Product Hits) - Director of Product
* Liam Handford - Head of Growth
* Andy Cowle - Director of Sales
 
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