WSJ video traffic has doubled in past six months
Ken Doctor writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab about how newspapers are increasing their video offerings and interviewed Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray, who said that the paper’s video traffic has doubled in the past six months. Doctor writes, “Why? It’s not mainly because of more use on Journal platforms, even though […]
Biz journalists who now shoot video
Adrienne LaFrance of the Nieman Journalism Lab writes Monday about The Wall Street Journal‘s new WorldStream, where journalists are shooting video with their phones of events they are covering and downloading them onto the paper’s website. LaFrance writes, “While WorldStream aims to be a way for viewers to get a potpourri of fresh video content, […]
WSJ launches Worldstream
The Wall Street Journal announced Monday the launch of WSJ WorldStream, a global video news gathering and publishing platform for short-form videos shot via smartphone by journalists from across the global Journal and Dow Jones news organization. Launching in conjunction with the start of the Republican National Convention this week in Tampa, Fla., WSJ WorldStream […]
Spokane biz paper considering e-version
The Spokane Journal of Business has rolled out a mobile version of the paper and is now considering an e-edition, writes editor Linn Parrish. Parrish writes, “This ‘e-edition’ would be available on any computer browser, but perhaps more importantly on iPhones, iPads, and some other devices through mobile browsers and the Journal’s own mobile application, […]
WSJ social media editor tells reporters to tweet about their beat
The real reason reporters are followed on Twitter is for their expertise and their added perspective of the their beat, says Liz Heron, director of social media at The Wall Street Journal, in this interview with Beet.TV.
Mention Quartz on Twitter, and its newsroom lights up
Zach Seward of the Quartz staff writes that a light bulb in the newsroom of the new financial news site will light up any time it is mentioned on Twitter. Seward writes, “To slake my obsession and distract myself from work, I recently set up a lightbulb in our office that toggles on and off […]
The video effort expands at the WSJ
Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray, who also oversees its online efforts, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Monday: I’d like to alert you to an exciting new news effort launching this month. As you know, video is becoming an increasingly important part of our journalism. Our video viewership has […]
The WSJ’s new popout markets widget
Adrienne LaFrance of Nieman Journalism Lab writes about The Wall Street Journal‘s pop-out Markets Data window that puts a real-time markets ticker in the corner of your screen. LaFrance writes, “It’s part of the newspaper’s ongoing ‘WSJ Everywhere’ mantra, and an attempt to keep readers connected with the Journal in an ever-fracturing and narrowing media […]
FT launching web app for Android
The Financial Times is beta launching its flagship web application on Chrome for Android at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco this week. Users with devices running the latest version of Android can simply visit http://app.ft.com in their Chrome browser to try it out. The FT is attending Google I/O via FT Labs, the […]
Pulse begins selling monthly WSJ subscriptions
The Pulse news-reader application for smartphones and tablets has begun selling a monthly subscription to The Wall Street Journal, reports Douglas MacMillan of Bloomberg News. MacMillan writes, “The Pulse partnership could help the Journal reach new readers who prefer to browse content on mobile devices and may have been unwilling to pay more than $25 […]
