Test case for the future of independent online business journalism
Keach Hagey of The Wall Street Journal writes for Monday’s paper about business news site Business Insider, founded five years ago by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget. Hagey writes, “In the past year, the site has boosted its monthly unique visitor count by 32% to 5.4 million in June, estimates comScore, an Internet analytics […]
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 […]
WSJ too close to the Federal Reserve?
On Bloomberg TV on Wednesday morning, former Morgan Stanley Asia non-executive chairman Stephen Roach pointed out the Wall Street Journal‘s uncanny relationship with the Federal Reserve. Roach said that, “[The Fed] has gone about their usual pre-FOMC leak frenzy where they talk to this reporter and that reporter. Jon Hilsenrath is actually the chairman of the […]
Dow Jones to sell newswires through WSJ.com
Dow Jones & Co. plans to sell its newswires content and all of its content to financial institutions directly through The Wall Street Journal website, according to a story from Jennifer Saba at Reuters. Saba writes, “Fenwick’s ambitions to sell directly to financial institutions is a change in strategy for Dow Jones. It comes at […]
WSJ video efforts bringing in more advertisers
Josh Sternberg of Digiday.com looks at The Wall Street Journal‘s video strategy and how it is bringing in more advertising revenue. Sternberg writes. “The Wall Street Journal has been doing video for over three years. Interestingly, it didn’t start with packed video stories like the Times. Instead it took a flier on live video programming […]
WSJ’s Thomson in running to oversee News Corp’s media company
Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is in the running to head the media company being split off from News Corp. that would include the paper, reports Mark Sweney of The Guardian in London. Sweney writes, “While considered a longer shot, Murdoch might consider turning to Australian-born Thomson, once described in an article in […]
WSJ to introduce weekly real estate section
The Wall Street Journal will introduce a weekly real-estate section targeting high-end buyers, one of several investments that the newspaper is considering, reports William Launder of the paper’s staff. Launder writes, “The 16-page residential real-estate section, to be introduced in late September or early October, will appear in the newspaper’s Friday editions nationally and online. […]
WSJ rolls out Dollar Index
The Wall Street Journal, which created the Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 100 years ago to measure the broad U.S. stock market, has introduced The Wall Street Journal Dollar Index to provide a more precise measure of the U.S. dollar. The WSJ Dollar Index was developed by the news team of DJ FX Trader, a […]
The WSJ and Dow Jones team in Beijing works around the clock
TALKING BIZ NEWS EXCLUSIVE BEIJING — A team of more than 100 journalists and translators work at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires operation in Beijing, literally around the clock. There are 70 journalists on the news side and almost 50 working in the translation unit, explained China editor Andrew Browne in a […]
WSJ intern fired for faking quotes also had problems at Yale
J.K. Trotter of IvyGate.com reports that Liane Membis, the Wall Street Journal intern fired last month for fabricating quotes, also had problems while working for the Yale Daily News as an undergraduate. Trotter writes, “In 2009, Membis — then a freshman — wrote an involved piece about Yale’s Marsh Botanic Garden, which later required an unusually […]
