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WSJ wins softball championship for second consecutive year

The Wall Street Journal won the New York Media Softball League championship this past weekend, defeating Chartbeat by an 8-7 score in the championship game.

It’s the Journal’s second consecutive championship and sixth overall. The newspaper also won from 2009 to 2012.

In the semifinals, The Journal defeated New York Public Radio, 5-4, with a walk-off hit on the ninth inning. In the other semifinal, Chartbeat handled Forbes by an 8-2 score.

While the Journal has appeared in eight final games, it was Chartbeat’s first. Chartbeat took a 7-2 lead into the sixth inning, but the Journal scored two in the sixth and four more in the bottom of the seventh to notch its sixth NYMSL title.

The Journal also came from behind to defeat New York Public Radio in last year’s title match.

Forbes won the third-place game. During the regular season, Forbes finished 6-4, while the Journal finished 10-0.

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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  • Too bad there's no media league world series, so the winners of the NY media league could play the winners of the DC media league (which is Bloomberg this year).

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