Wall Street Journal and New York Times battle head-to-head
Who doesn’t love a newspaper battle? Well, at least newshounds love having options and competition. In New York City, the competition for business news readers is heating up.
In what the Washington Post has dubbed the “free-for-all in Gotham,” the Wall Street Journal unveiled its New York edition this morning and the New York Times pushed back a little.
Apparently Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson went after the New York Times’ subscribers, telling them to “cancel your subscription.”
As a response in a note to their staffers, New York Times’ top executives publisher Arthur Sulzberger and CEO Janet Robinson passed along some tips for the newcomers:
So as our welcome gift to New York, we pass on a few helpful hints to our Journal colleagues: the Dodgers now play in Los Angeles, Soho is the acronym for South of Houston, Fashion Week has moved to Lincoln Center, Idlewild is now JFK and Cats is no longer playing on Broadway.
Read more on the battle for newspaper readers:
The Financial Times reports that the WSJ is planning five regional editions and as many as 15 “tie-ups” where the Journal provides pages of local business news in regional editions of its flagship paper. WSJ already has local editions in San Francisco and Chicago.
No matter how the free-for-all in Gotham plays out, it is nice to see newspapers battling over the business news reader.
I am really impressed with the new reader that the New York Times is providing. I was a paper person but they are moving me to the digital age. Another site I really like for business news is socialnews.biz.