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WSJ online network traffic up 16 percent in 2012

The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, which included WSJ.com, Barrons.com, Marketwatch.com, SmartMoney.com and AllThingsD.com, has seen a double-digit increase in monthly visitors in 2012, the company said Tuesday.
The sites now generate almost 60 million visitors per month, a 16 percent increase from 2011.
WSJ Live, the Journal’s video initiative, is now available on 30 platforms, 18 of which were added in 2012, including Xbox. Streams have increased 370 percent since January to 35 million across all platforms.
WSJ.com also launched sites in three additional languages during 2012 – German, Korean and Bahasa – bringing the total number of local-language sites to eight.

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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