Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ Radio Network to be distributed by TuneIn

TuneIn, a free service that lets people listen to music, sports and news from around the world, announced Thursday that it will deliver The Wall Street Journal Radio Network content to the more than 30 million TuneIn listeners.

The Wall Street Journal Radio Network provides business news and produces news programs for more than 450 radio stations.

Its content includes late-breaking and around-the-clock business news, consumer spending information, financial-market updates, and long form news and talk program. The network also distributes 23 podcast titles.

“We are thrilled to expand the reach of The Wall Street Journal Radio Network’s programming by partnering with TuneIn,” said Nancy Abramson, executive director, The Wall Street Journal Radio Network, in a statemnt. “We look forward to growing our audience and reaching more listeners on the go with business, talk and consumer news our staff works around the clock to provide.”

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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.