Categories: OLD Media Moves

Prediction: WSJ will be a better read

Jack Flack, who writes a blog for Conde Nast Portfolio critiquing the intersection between PR and media, argues that The Wall Street Journal under Rupert Murdoch‘s ownership will become a better read.

Flack wrote, “Jack Flack predicts things will move quickly. Relative to other news organizations, the Journal runs on an editor-driven, team-first/me-second culture that is fully capable of executing a Student-Body-Right any USC tailback would be proud to run behind. Also, Journal staffers, who have long complained of the notoriously grinding ‘thoroughness’ of the editing process, will likely be energized by the coming emphasis on speed and decisiveness, not to mention seeing fewer of their best bits of reporting left on the editing room floor.

“The net effect is that the Journal will indeed become a better read, with juicier, timelier stories that are framed more dramatically. Yes, the editing will not be nearly as conservative, and thus the number of occasional embarrassments will increase, but not to any degree that will sufficiently diminish the paper’s credibility.”

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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.

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