This Saturday’s Wall Street Journal will see the first issue of a new glossy magazine, one part of their development project, which also includes the relaunch of the Journal’s WSJ.com website on September 16.
As a result of Guardian News & Media’s acquisition of ContentNext, Media Guardian content has started to appear on paidContent:UK. Just recently the same occured vice versa: the appearance of Paid Content articles on the Media Guardian site.
In July, Journalism.co.uk reported that Guardian News & Media had bought ContentNext, behind paidcontent.org, paidContent:UK and the Indian news site contentSutra.com.
An early report by the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD column reported that according to sources it was a figure ‘north of $30 million.’
The deal marked a ‘significant expansion’ of GNM’s US presence, a press statement said at the time.
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The Financial Times and the Times are now available as e-newspapers on Amazon’s Kindle.
The partnership means electronic and automatically updated editions of the papers will now be accessible via the Kindle.
Editions of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and the Irish Times are also available on the device.
Earlier this year the US Tribune Co. launched a magazine specially designed for the e-reader.
Subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal’s pay-for website have risen 88 per cent over the last year, according to News Corporation’s end of year results.
Total profit for the company is up from £1.7 billion to £2.7 billion.
A reorganisation of the Wall Street Journal’s editorial and production operations will lead to around 50 jobs being lost, editor Robert Thomson has said in a memo.
The paper’s editing and production for print, online and mobile will be centralised around its New York ‘hub’, with editorial operations at its South Brunswick offices to cease.
Channel director Cassy will take a six-month secondment to develop the WSJ’s online video strategy.
Brauchli, who left the WSJ in April, will become the Washington Post’s new executive editor in September.
He will replace Leonard Downie.
The paper will now operate with a central news desk to allow for ‘enhanced co-operation between print, web and Newswires journalists’, a memo from editor Robert Thomson has said.
Former Times editor Robert Thomson has been appointed editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, succeeding Marcus Brauchli.
An op-ed to be published in today’s Journal, will see Thomson admit he made mistakes in his involvement with Brauchli’s departure.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has named Sarabjit ‘Ruby’ Walia as chief technology officer for its digital network.
Walia will manage the technology across WSJ.com and Dow Jones’ sister websites Barrons and MarketWatch.
He joins the Journal from business and financial communications consultancy Financial Dynamics.
“Ruby’s success leading digital technology businesses within large media companies in this space will ensure our ability to innovate and continue to bring users the most effective digital experiences possible to our millions of loyal users,” said Gordon McLeod, president of the WSJ digital network, in a press release.