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WSJ to launch Risk & Compliance Journal this spring

The Wall Street Journal announced plans Wednesday to launch “Risk & Compliance Journal,” a news and information service aimed at serving the needs of C-suite executives and boards of directors charged with navigating the array of corporate, financial and reputational risks facing companies.

Set to launch in the spring, the service will provide coverage of a wide span of governance, risk and compliance issues, including analysis of the significance of laws and regulations, the risks inherent in global expansion, and practical guidance on how companies and boards can protect their corporate reputations.

The service will be overseen by Nicholas Elliott, a veteran editor who has been with Dow Jones for more than 20 years and currently serves as editor of The Wall Street Journal’s Corruption Currents blog. Risk & Compliance Journal will have its own dedicated staff, as well as draw upon the wider editorial resources of The Journal.

“Risk and compliance is an important area of coverage and a critical avenue of growth for us,” said Gerard Baker, editor-in-chief of The Journal, in a statement. “The pressure on companies to address these issues—regulation, governance, bribery and money laundering—has never been greater. Our aim is to create a definitive source for staying on top of the fast-paced regulatory and strategic change in this area.”

Risk & Compliance Journal will be the latest in a series of dedicated content pages from Dow Jones that also includes CFO Journal, CIO Journal, Wall Street Journal Wealth Management, and DJ FX Trader. The service will be available to WSJ subscribers and complements Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, a suite of enterprise screening and diligence tools used by over 2,000 corporations globally to manage risk around money laundering, corruption, fraud and sanctions compliance.

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.