Changes ahead at the Wall Street Journal

Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz outlined some changes coming at the business newspaper at a presentation at the Inter American Press Association meeting in Mexico City, according to an Editor & Publisher report.Reporter Mark Fitzgerald wrote, “Much of what the Journal will introduce in January is nothing new, Crovitz acknowledged. The web width will shrink to the standard industry broadsheet. Pages and pages of detailed financial listings will be replaced by what Crovitz called ‘a state-of-the-art’ Markets Data Center.

“Print readers will see even less recounting of yesterday’s events from a newspaper that prides itself on explaining the impact of news it figures its audience learned before bedtime.

“The long-running Page One summary of news called What´s New will be replicated throughout the newspaper to summarize, for instance, quarterly financial reports.

“In its last redesign, the Journal changed little in look or content, and a person awaking from a coma that began in 1941 would see an almost unchanged newspaper.”

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