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WSJ launches “What’s News” application

The Wall Street Journal launched Wednesday  “What’s News,” its first mobile-only app for iPhone, named after the newspaper’s front page “What’s News” digest.

Available exclusively for The Journal subscribers, the iPhone app delivers the 10 most important business stories updated throughout the day by a team of journalists in New York, Hong Kong and London. “What’s News” is designed for mobile use with articles as well as a real-time view of major market data.

“For more than eight decades, ‘What’s News’ has been an indispensable part of The Wall Street Journal’s daily news offering,” said Gerard Baker, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, said in a statement. “The digest remains the most popular element of the newspaper. Today, we are proud to reinvent ‘What’s News’ for the most modern media platform — the smartphone. Subscribers can now stay abreast of all the most important business news throughout the day — in a matter of minutes.”

The “What’s News” app joins the Journal’s recently enhanced suite of digital products, including new apps for both iOS and Android, as well as an Apple Watch app.

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.

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