Wikipedia strikes deal with Dow Jones publications

Journalism from Dow Jones & Co., including the Wall Street Journal, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.

Through this partnership, Dow Jones will be providing experienced Wikipedia editors access to The Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily.

A number of Wikipedia volunteer editors will also get access to the Japanese edition and the simplified and traditional Chinese editions of The Journal.

Partnering with a subscription-based newspaper of record in the United States is an important milestone in the effort to give Wikipedia editors access to quality news and media resources.

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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.