Categories: OLD Media Moves

Next at the WSJ: A weekly culture section?

Irin Carmon of Women’s Wear Daily writes Wednesday that in addition to more sports and political coverage, The Wall Street Journal is examining a weekly culture section.

Carmon wrote, “The project is in the very early development stages, and a spokesman for The Journal declined comment Tuesday.

“Former House & Garden editor in chief Dominique Browning, who is said to be overseeing the prototype, confirmed she was consulting at The Journal but said she could not discuss further details. Sources said she was holding meetings internally to brainstorm for the section.

“If given the green light, the culture section would be another move toward Murdoch’s stated goal of competing with The New York Times.”

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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.