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WSJ digital subs up 25 percent for the year

The Wall Street Journal digital subscribers totaled 948,000 at the end of the 2016 fiscal year, according to a company news release on Monday.

That’s compared to 753,000 in the prior year, or up 25.9 percent.

In the News Corp. fourth-quarter news and information division, which includes the Journal, Barron’s and MarketWatch.com, revenue totaled $1.4 billion, up $13 million, or 1 percent.

Digital revenues represented 23 percent of of the division’s revenues in the quarter, compared to 19 percent in the prior year. At Dow Jones, digital revenues represented 53 percent of total revenues in the quarter.

Earnings in that division fell 5 percent to $160 million for the quarter.

Read the entire earnings release 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.