Categories: OLD Media Moves

Exit interview with Crovitz

Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org talked with outgoing Wall Street Journal publisher Gordon Crovitz about the future of Dow Jones & Co. media properties.

Here is an excerpt:

Would you have liked to stay?: I think the goals that I set when I started couple of years ago (as the publisher of WSJ) in this role really have been achieved. I wish the new management and new ownership all the best.

What about WSJ.comâ€™s future?: I think News Corp has a range of options. It is up to them how they choose to proceed, and what sort of mix of paid and free they want to go ahead with.

Marketwatchâ€™s future: My view is that Marketwatch and WSJâ€™s audience has been different. The Journal brand stands for broad business news, while the Marketwatch brand is for people who wanted to follow the daily happenings of the market. Marketwatch has been a key part of adding tens of millions of dollars in profits to our digital operations, and that is largely through serving this different audience.

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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.