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Jun 6, 2008

WSJ to cut ties with BreakingViews.com

The Wall Street Journal has ended its arrangement with syndicated daily financial column BreakingViews.com, a year and a half sooner than the column was contracted to end. WSJ has also indicated plans to offload its 7 percent stake in the business.
It has been rumored that WSJ publisher and editor-in-chief Robert Thomson, is bolstering the paper's long-running Heard on the Street column to compete with BreakingViews.com.
BreakingViews.com column employs 27 writers in Europe and the United States and has 15,000 direct subscribers to its Web site, making it popular among the global financial elite. The column has run in the WSJ Europe for eight years and just began running in the United States in early 2007.

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