Categories: OLD Media Moves

Wall Street Journal’s All Things D successor launches soon

The Wall Street Journal’s answer to its separation with AllThingsD, a global technology coverage section called “WSJD,” is launching next month, reports Matt Lynley of BuzzFeed.

Lynley writes, “The company will be launching a global technology conference to go with it — which it said it would when the separation was made public — branded under the ‘WSJD’ name, though the exact name of the conference couldn’t be learned. It will also launch a section in the paper as part of the paper’s existing ‘Marketplace’ business section, according to the source.

“The paper has aggressively built out its technology coverage with a slew of columnists, reviewers, bloggers and writers since it became clear that it was going to part ways with AllThingsD.

“The AllThingsD brand has been a staple of the Journal’s technology coverage since launching, which included regular columns, breaking news and a large technology conference run by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.”

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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.