Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ.com offering free, live video on Tuesday

Although News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch, who now owns The Wall Street Journal, has said that most of its web content will remain behind a pay wall, the paper is offering free, live video online on Tuesday for the first time.

The paper will offer free, live video during its coverage of the Super Tuesday primaries. The effort marks the first time WSJ.com will offer live video on the site.

Reporting live from the Journal’s New York City headquarters, Alan Murray, executive editor of WSJ.com, and Jerry Seib, Capital Journal columnist and assistant managing editor for The Journal, will anchor the site’s hour-long video coverage beginning tonight at 8 p.m. EST.

Users will be able to access the free video directly from the WSJ.com home page as well as via a link from MarketWatch.com.

Discussing key issues, key states and poll results, Murray and Seib will conduct live, in-studio interviews with Bob Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, and Professor Alain L. Sanders, Saint Peter’s College Department of Political Science, among others.

In addition, Journal and MarketWatch reporters will offer video packages from other bureaus in the U.S. as well as internationally. Out of New York, the Journal’s Li Yuan will discuss Asia’s view of U.S. politics.  In addition, WSJ.com will continue to offer video clips of election coverage from Fox News Channel.

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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