Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ Sunday turns eight

The Wall Street Journal Sunday, which appears in business sections across the country, turns eight today, notes the paper.

A short story stated, “Recent years have been hard for most newspapers. Circulation is down. Advertising revenues are falling. News staffs are shrinking.

“Sunday Journal is not immune to such problems. But so far we’re managing, thank you, even prospering. We’ve added new ‘Indexing & ETFs’ and ‘Small Business’ columns, quarterly mutual-funds updates and special features like this week’s ‘College Savings’ report.

“Sunday Journal advertising has remained strong, and our circulation robust. Today, we welcome the Times Union of Albany, N.Y., to our partnership of, now, 71 newspapers reaching 8.7 million households.”

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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.