The Wall Street Journal's redesign
Mario Garcia, a well-known newspaper designer, said in an article this morning that he wished that The Wall Street Journal would become a tabloid — a move unlikely to happen. Garcia, in the St. Petersburg Times, also said about the Wall Street Journal’s redesign: “‘It’s basically a rethinking . . . (according to) how people […]
Wall Street Journal media reporter leaving for New York magazine
According to the Gawker blog: “Dashing Joe Hagan, the media-reporting up-and-comer who only nine months ago left the peach playpen of The New York Observer, where he’d been the NYTV columnist, to take over the media beat at The Wall Street Journal, is now set to leave the Journal and become a contract writer at […]
Innovation journalism fellows named
Stanford University has started a program to teach journalists how to write better about how innovation affects the business world and the larger society. It named its first fellows for the program today. The press release states: “The fellows represent influential newsrooms in Sweden and Finland, together with the U.S. ranked as the most competitive […]
Barron's online to keep site free until Feb. 20
The Dow Jones subsidiary is hoping to attract more visitors to its online site by keeping it available to the general public before it cuts them off and makes everything available only to subscribers. They recently disclosed that they have 45,000 paying subscribers since they split the paid online away from the Wall Street Journal. […]
Barney Calame to speak in Mississippi
Barney Calame, who won the SABEW Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002 and is now the public editor of the New York Times, will speak in Mississippi this coming Thursday. Calame was a long-time fixture at SABEW functions before retiring from the Wall Street Journal at the beginning of 2005. He has been the public editor […]
Wall Street Journal and Barron's ad lineage improves
Dow Jones reported today improved ad sales for its two flagship publications, The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. Here is what the press release said: “Advertising linage at The Wall Street Journal, including Weekend Edition increased 8.0% in January due to increases in classified, technology and general advertising, partially offset by a decrease in financial […]
Critic: Saturday Wall Street Journal is a beached whale
Hamilton Nolan of PR Week has harsh words for the Wall Street Journal, specifically its new Saturday edition, which debuted last year. He fears that the Saturday edition, plus other changes to the business newspaper, are the beginning of a downslide. Nolan writes: “The easily accessible index will make negative news buried on the inside […]
British Independent newspaper tries to devise new stock listing
Jeremy Warner of the Independent, a London-based newspaper, notes that the paper has been trying to come up with a better stock index to gauge the performance of the London market, but without much success. Warner writes, “Tricky things, stock market indices, as the business reporting team at The Independent has discovered in attempting to […]
Defense attorney blames Wall Street Journal for Enron's demise
Mike Ramsey, who represents former Enron Corp. CEO Ken Lay in the current conspiracy and fraud trial by the government against Skilling and Lay over the energy company’s demise, made his opening statement in court today, and he blamed the company’s problems on Wall Street Journal reporters talking to shortsellers, according to Houston Chronicle columnist […]
Is the Wall Street Journal cutting back overseas?
In a story in the American Journalism Review about the New York Times’ efforts to revamp and revitalize the International Herald Tribune, the reference is made that the IHT is going up against the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times for overseas readers. In that context, there is a discussion as to whether the Wall […]
