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WSJ website goes down

The Wall Street Journal’s homepage experienced an outage on Wednesday amid similar troubles at the New York Stock Exchange and United Airlines, reports Hadas Gold of Politico.

Gold writes, “The newspaper’s homepage displayed a 504 outage, though other sections of the newspaper’s website, such as its Markets page, continued to function. The outage came at a curious time, just hours after United Airlines grounded all their flights across the country due to computer problems, and mere minutes after trading was halted on the New York Stock Exchange.

“NBC News’ Pete Williams reported that officials do not think the glitches at United and the NYSE are connected, and it’s possible that with the NYSE news, The Wall Street Journal’s homepage is crashing under intense traffic.

“We’ve reached out to The Wall Street Journal for comment and will update here accordingly.

UPDATE (12:50p.m.):

“Wall Street Journal spokesperson Rachel Manfredo said the paper is aware of the outage and is ‘working to be back up as quickly as possible.'”

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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.