Almar Latour is a media executive and current CEO of Dow Jones and Company.

He then earned a master's degree from American University in Washington, D.C.[1] Latour began his career as a reporter for a newspaper at a Chautauqua, New York resort and interning at Dutch language and at The Washington Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he authored a front-page article for The Wall Street Journal Europe.

[3] On July 21, 2020, more than 280 Journal journalists and Dow Jones staff members wrote a letter to Latour criticizing the opinion pages' "lack of fact-checking and transparency, and its apparent disregard for evidence," adding, "opinion articles often make assertions that are contradicted by WSJ reporting."

The letter cited a June 2020 opinion article by the U.S. vice president Mike Pence that contained errors, asserting that "scrutinizing these numbers would have required no more than a Google search.

"[7][8] Latour is reported to have a strained relationship with Matt Murray, editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, a Dow Jones publication.