Biz publications offering free content due to coronavirus

Business publications such as Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal have relaxed their paywalls due to coronavirus coverage, reports Sara Jerde of Adweek.

Jerde reports, “The Wall Street Journal’s teams are feeding a live page that is available to read without a subscription and a new daily video series will begin Monday, free of charge. The complimentary coverage will also be highlighted on the website’s main landing page beginning next week.

“”For over a month, we have been making key pieces of important coronavirus content open to read for free and will continue to do so as we serve the public on this story,’ said Louise Story, WSJ’s chief news strategist and chief product and technology officer, in a statement.

“Other industries might also win over new consumers and attention by changing how they operate in the face of coronavirus, said Mark Beal, assistant professor of professional practice in public relations at Rutgers University’s School of Communication and Information.”

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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.