WSJ parent plans streaming radio channel on TuneIn

The Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones is launching a new streaming radio channel on the audio platform TuneIn this month, reports Matthew Keys of The Desk.

Keys reports, “The channel, called WSJ Radio, will operate around-the-clock with featured content produced by the audio teams at the Wall Street Journal and its sister publications Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily.

“WSJ Radio will be formally announced by TuneIn and Dow Jones on Thursday, with the channel available to free and premium users of TuneIn’s audio apps on smartphones, tablets, streaming TV devices and via the TuneIn website.

“‘We’re thrilled to be able to partner with Dow Jones as they are the go-to source for international business news and data,’ Richard Stern, the CEO of TuneIn, said in a statement e-mailed to The Desk on Wednesday.”

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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.