Anthony Galloway, global head of video and audio at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday to the staff:
Good morning,
As we continue development of our new daily podcast in partnership with Gimlet, I’m pleased to share that this week we re-launched the existing What’s News podcast with an updated format, refreshed sound and, most importantly, more information that’s important to our audience.
This revamped What’s News, which is being produced twice a day — the morning in London and afternoon in New York, is designed to brief our audience on what they need to know to start their day or bring them up to speed on the day’s developments. The morning episode focuses on the day’s biggest business and general news stories, recaps what you missed overnight, and features a daily markets segment. The afternoon episode, which publishes at market close, shares the day’s news with added context from Journal reporters.
Click here to listen to this morning’s episode
This updated format was developed by our new London-based What’s News host/producer, Kim Gittleson, who was previously the BBC’s Senior On-Air Reporter and North America Business Correspondent, in partnership with our New York-based team, Annmarie Fertoli, Anthony Green and Charlie Horoshowski. Brendan Francis Newnam served as a consulting producer and Paolo Bosonin, George Downs and Bekah Wineman facilitated production. Additionally, the London bureau has been immensely helpful during our piloting period and continues to support the program with daily editorial contributions.
We’re looking forward to working with reporters and editors across the newsroom as we begin this new chapter with What’s News. Stay tuned for news about the WSJ/Gimlet podcast, which is coming soon.
Anthony
