Yale student paper says fired WSJ intern may have changed quotes

An investigation by the Yale Daily News has discovered that former Wall Street Journal intern Liane Membis, who was fired this summer from the business newspaper for making up sources, may have changed quotes in stories while an undergraduate. Max de La Bruyère of the paper writes, “After fact-checking her articles and contacting as many […]

WSJ Sunday turns 13

David Crook, the editor of the Wall Street Journal Sunday, writes about the insert into daily newspapers across the country turning 13. Crook writes, “We have in the last year committed to new writers and columns, including our three new writers of The Juggle on Sunday column — Demetria Gallegos in New York, Katy McLaughlin […]

WSJ wins fourth consecutive softball championship

The Wall Street Journal won its fourth consecutive New York Media Softball League championship on Saturday afternoon. In the semifinals, the Journal defeated WNYC by a 4-1 score. In the finals, the business newspaper defeated High Times, the No. 1 seed, to whom they had lost twice to during the regular season. The final score […]

WSJ Live seeing strong growth

Steven Rosenbaum of Forbes.com writes about how WSJ Live, which is The Wall Street Journal’s live video operation, had 28 million dowloads in August, up four times from a year ago. Rosenbaum writes, “One thing that the Journal has done with video is embrace a wide ranging syndication strategy.  Murray said there are new 28 […]

WSJ/Dow Jones looking for temp reporters in northern Europe

John Stoll, the Nordics bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, sent out the following email to the staff on Friday: Our combined WSJ/DJN Nordic bureau is in the market for hungry reporters looking to spend a few months in Scandinavia compiling a portfolio of unforgettable features and hard fought scoops. […]

Fashion Friday

On a recent trip to New York, I was sitting out a two-hour plane delay watching the U.S. Open and drinking a beer. Half of the screens in the bar were tuned into the NFL’s opening game. What follows is my best reconstruction of the conversation between two guys standing behind me: Guy 1: Move […]

WSJ.com enhances navigation

The Wall Street Journal’s website has introduced some new enhancements to its navigation. A note on the site states, “First, there are several editions of WSJ.com that can be set as the default home page, including U.S., Europe, Asia and many international local-language editions, including Chinese-language and Japanese-language. Today we have made those choices more […]

Trying to make sense of the Fed

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo., on Friday revealed the central bank was poised to take further action to help the economy. In what several described as uncharacteristically strong language, Bernanke called continuing high unemployment rate a “grave concern” and indicated the bank was poised to take action to stimulate the […]

WSJ video traffic has doubled in past six months

Ken Doctor writes for the Nieman Journalism Lab about how newspapers are increasing their video offerings and interviewed Wall Street Journal deputy managing editor Alan Murray, who said that the paper’s video traffic has doubled in the past six months. Doctor writes, “Why? It’s not mainly because of more use on Journal platforms, even though […]

WSJ.com and Dow Jones Newswires to integrate London editing desk

Steve McGrath, editor for news at Dow Jones Newswires in London, sent out the following announcement on Wednesday: We are integrating our newswires and wsj.com editing desks in London to better reflect the integration we’ve already implemented in our European bureaus. We’re aiming to eliminate much of the duplicate editing that happens today, and also […]