Categories: OLD Media Moves

The search to replace WSJ Sunday content

Jon Gogick, the executive editor of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia, writes about his paper’s search for content to replace Wall Street Journal Sunday content, which Dow Jones discontinued.

Gogick writes, “Our goal was to find pages that could help you stretch your weekly paycheck and turn your pocketbook into a nest egg for retirement.

“After months of conference calls and reviewing prototypes and debating the merits of the various offerings, we decided on a solution.

“The new pages will be unveiled next Sunday. They will be heavy on personal finance with some investing and stock information. They will have a more visual approach to presenting information.

“The pages will offer questions and answers from industry leaders, a closer look at companies driving the stock market and insights into the latest technology.

“‘The pages will offer advice for small business owners to make them better,’ said Tim Rausch, who has been the business editor at The Augusta Chronicle for seven years. ‘The pages will offer a lot of information in an appetizing nugget.”

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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.