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WSJ expands its pro service to private equity and venture capital

The Wall Street Journal Pro franchise has expanded its offerings with websites covering private equity and venture capital, and it plans to launch a site covering bankruptcy news this summer.

WSJ Pro first launched in September 2015 with a service covering central banks and has since added one covering financial regulation. An additional three services are planned by the end of 2016.

The membership service delivers proprietary news, analysis, data and alerts. Members can also attend events featuring leading figures from the industry interviewed by Journal journalists and where they can network with peers.

“We’re giving private equity and venture capital professionals access to new information and tools to use in their daily work, even while on the move,” said Nick Elliott, managing editor of WSJ Pro Private Equity and WSJ Pro Venture Capital, in a statement. “When you add this to the reporting prowess of The Wall Street Journal, it’s a powerful new package.”

Individual memberships cost $1,500 a year. Corporate memberships are available.

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.