Categories: OLD Media Moves

Albany Times Union to offer WSJ Sunday

The Albany Times Union said in Wednesday’s newspaper that it will begin running content from the Wall Street Journal in its Sunday business section.

A short story stated, “The arrangement will provide readers with strong personal financial guidance prepared by Journal staffers specifically for newspapers’ Sunday editions.

“Features include Tip of the Week, offering tips on timely personal finance issues; Investor’s Calendar, listing the week’s news that will affect reader investments; Love & Money, focusing on financial issues confronting young families; In Translation, deciphering investment jargon; Ask Dow Jones, providing expert answers to tax and personal finance questions; and Health Costs, looking at the finances of health care.

“‘We’re thrilled about this addition to our newspaper,’ said Rex Smith, vice president and editor of the Times Union. ‘This change allows us to offer more personal finance information on topics ranging from retirement planning and auto financing to health care and technology tips from the top reporters in financial journalism.'”

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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.