Categories: OLD Media Moves

Murdoch: Wall Street Journal could change name to WSJ

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, in an interview on CNBC Thursday, said that The Wall Street Journal could change its name to WSJ in the future as the company splits into two.

He called the paper “a great global brand.”

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.