South Carolina paper replacing WSJ Sunday with USA Today content

The Beaufort Gazette in South Carolina is replacing the WSJ Sunday content that it has run for content from USA Today.

Editor Brian Tolley writes, “We know the Wall Street Journal Sunday Business pages are popular with you. I enjoy them, too. Unfortunately, Dow Jones, the company that owns the Journal, has decided to discontinue distribution of the pages, citing a need to focus on its core brand. That means we have to adjust; fortunately, we’ve been able to work out a deal to publish similar pages from USA Today in our Sunday editions. We’ll publish our last WSJ pages Feb. 15 and then switch to USA Today the following Sunday.”

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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.