The ‘What’s News’ section has been the Wall
Street Journal’s A1 staple for years. This section packs snippets together from
the day’s articles along with items not found in the paper. The content was
segregated into three sections: Business, Finance, and Worldwide. However, now
only the Business and Finance sub sections remain, MediaBistro reports.
In a memo by Gerard Baker, the Journal’s
Managing Editor, he stated that slimming down this section will allow for more
A1 items regarding Business and Finance to make the front page. Baker went on
to say that, “The case for two full columns of news digest items has
diminished, and some of the items in the ‘What’s News’ column have become
repetitive, even otiose.” Hence, this change will “enable us to get more
original reporting and news from the front page – including no-jump stories as
brevity sometimes demands – more enterprise reporting, more creative and
appealing use of news photography, graphics, and other visual devices.”
The move to diminish the column’s size is
aimed at removing the ‘Daily Vital Signs of the Economy’ graphic from the foot
of the columns, Monday’s ‘What’s Ahead’ columns as well as making individual
digest stories more concise. The daily news hopes to make room for as many ‘What’s
News’ items as they had in the last few years.
The ‘What’s News’ section will now run as a
single column and thus additional space available on the rest of the page will
offer more flexibility for bigger stories of the day, according to a report by CapitalNewYork.com.
This will further enable the front page of the WSJ to include more of their
original reporting and more news, including
no-jump stories as brevity sometimes demands, more enterprise reporting, more
creative and appealing use of news photography, graphics, and other visual
devices.
By: Savita V Jayaram
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