The Wall Street Journal effects radical editorial makeover January 2.Far be it from us to claim that The Wall Street Journal has stolen a page from Fred Goss's new book, How to Write & Edit Must-Read Newsletters. But they're certainly on the same page when it comes to giving the reader both news and interpretation. Fred wrote:
I believe that today, with "anything that happens in the industry
is on the internet in 20 minutes," it is now more important than it
used to be for newsletters to be interesting to read for their
interpretation and analysis--to be a source of information and
analysis, written by someone for someone.
Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance & Co.'s WSJ WSJ Wall Street Journal WSJ Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) WSJ Web Services Journal WSJ Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina) WSJ Wagle Street Journal (Kathmandu, Nepal blog) is facing the fact that the internet is supplanting newspapers' traditional role of supplying breaking news (leave television out of this for now). It plans to make The Wall Street Journal Online its newshound news·hound n. An aggressive or energetic journalist. and to reposition the print edition as a source of trends-based, interpretative reporting and analysis. Doesn't that sound like a magazine? "Print focuses more on forward-looking news, online on what's happening now," said L. Gorman Crovitz, publisher of the Journal. It's coming to this: Newspapers have been printing yesterday's new today. Now online versions publish today's news today, and future newspapers like WSJ will publish tomorrow's news today. Come January 2, 2007, only 20 percent of the WSJ print edition will be devoted to disclosure news and announcements. The analysis-news ratio used to be 50-50. Now it's 80-20. DM News editor Mickey Alam Kahn writes: "With more than 800,000 subscribers, the site at www.wsj.com already has a larger circulation than the Washington Post, the Washington Post, The Morning daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the dominant paper in the U.S. capital and one of the nation's leading newspapers. Established in 1877 as a Democratic Party organ, it changed orientation and ownership several times and faced Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). or the Chicago Tribune. Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is the real-time financial news organization owned by Dow Jones. Founded in 1882, its primary competitors are Bloomberg L.P. and Reuters. The company reports more than 420,000 subscribers -- including brokers, traders, analysts and fund managers -- as of July , MarketWatch.com and the publisher's offerings for the BlackBerry and other handheld devices will support with active daily news coverage." |
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