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WSJ.com begins making some content free

The Wall Street Journal has begun making editorial and opinion content free on its web site, according to a Reuters story Thursday.

The story stated, “An item in the Wall Street Journal Europe newspaper on Thursday said the company has rolled out a new Web site offering free access to all its editorials and opinion columns. Core news content remains a subscription service.

“The move represents one of the first tangible signs of how Murdoch is putting his stamp on the Wall Street Journal.

“As part of the free offering, video clips are being offered from News Corp.’s Fox news television channel.

“Analysts are keeping a close eye on what Murdoch does with the Journal given his interest in possibly making the entire WSJ online site free to attract more readers and advertisers.”

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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.

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George Mondie says:
January 10, 2008 at 4:39 pm
The newly free content is great. The new format is not. OpinionJournal users could always scroll down to see the past week's content, a feature I, for one, used often. No access here to the previous days' content. Very pretty, but neither distinctive or as good as before. Please continue to work on the format.