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The new WSJ crossword puzzle is a big hit

Mark Mooney of CNNMoney.com writes about how The Wall Street Journal has added a crossword puzzle to the business newspaper.

Mooney writes, “So when the Wall Street Journal recently opened its pages to a flurry of crossword and other puzzles, for solvers it was like a three letter word for happiness.

“‘Anecdotally, the reaction has been joy,’ said the Journal’s Senior Deputy Managing Editor Mike Miller.

“The WSJ has been slowly edging into the world of puzzles, first creating a large Friday puzzle about 10 years ago. A couple years ago it added one to the Greater New York section and one in the Saturday Review section.

“‘I’ve been here 30 years and I always thought that the only thing wrong with it was that it had no daily puzzle,’ Miller said.

“A lot of readers apparently agreed, and are reveling in the raft of new brain teasers including a daily crossword, a Friday puzzle that is also a contest, and a maze of intricate puzzles on a Saturday page called ‘Play’ that includes a math challenge devised by the Museum of Mathematics. (Who knew there was a museum of mathematics.)”

Read more here.

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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