New Zealand’s BusinessDesk strikes deal for WSJ content

New Zealand-based business news website BusinessDesk has struck a deal with Dow Jones & Co. that gives its subscribers access to Wall Street Journal content.

BusinessDesk news content will also now appear in Factiva, Dow Jones’s research tool and global news and content collection service.

“This is a huge moment for BusinessDesk,” says Pattrick Smellie, BusinessDesk co-founder and editor, in a statement. “Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal are the perfect complement to our broad coverage of the New Zealand economy. I’m also very much looking forward to seeing the fantastic work of BusinessDesk journalists featured in Factiva, now in lights on the world stage through this partnership.”

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.