Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wall Street Journal launches podcast series

The Wall Street Journal introduced Tuesday a series of 12 podcasts highlighting reporting from the Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.

The podcasts range from daily updates with “What’s News,” “Your Money Matters” and “Tech News Briefing” to the weekly “Opinion: Potomac Watch” and “Free for All with Jason Gay.”

The shows include three daily and nine weekly podcasts. Starting on Dec. 11, the WSJ Podcasts will be distributed in partnership with The Slate Group’s Panoply podcast network. WSJ Podcasts are available for listening at WSJ.com/podcasts and via download at iTunes, Stitcher, Deezer, and SoundCloud.

“WSJ Podcasts give voice to the Journal’s world-class reporting, creating new opportunities for audiences to engage with our news, analysis and commentary,” said John Wordock, executive producer, WSJ Podcasts, in a statement.

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.