The next battleground for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal's little newspaper war is apparently the papers' communications departments. Bob Christie, the PR man for The Times who left the Journal
Earlier: Times socres a PR Win in WSJ Battle
The Observer has learned that The Wall Street Journal will launch a weekly book review within the next few weeks. The Journal has never had a standalone book review before, and creating one now flies in the face of ever-dwindling book coverage in papers across the country.
The book review will be a pull-out section that Read More
In the magazine this weekend, The New York Times has a great piece from the investigative desk about the use of phone hacking at News of the World, a British tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. under the News Group Newspapers umbrella.
Reporters at the paper may have used illegal phone-hacking techniques on more Read More
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New York Times business editor Larry Ingrassia, a Journal alumnus himself, announced today that Wall Street reporter Susanne Craig would be joining the Times business desk from the Wall Street Journal.
Ms. Craig will be contributing to the business section in print and blogging online for Andrew Ross Sorkin and Jeff Cane's increasingly well-staffed Dealbook blog. Read More
Joe Pompeo reports that The New York Times' Dealbook has grabbed private equity reporter Peter Lattman from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported earlier this summer that The Times would be adding staff to Dealbook, The Times finance blog named after Andrew Ross Sorkin's column.
Mr. Lattman came to the Journal from Read More
A thief has been routinely stealing all of the copies of The New York Times from the Starbucks on 73rd Street and Columbus Avenue. Now you have to get The Times from the barista because it's not safe on the rack! The Wall Street Journal, on other hand, never gets stolen. Westside Independent has Read More
Upon arriving last night at the Waldorf Astoria for the Deadline Club's annual award ceremony, Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson swept through the wine reception in the lobby and into the dining room while the guests, mostly journalists, finished their drinks.
Mr. Thomson had missed the hour of standing around and drinking. He was Read More
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When The Wall Street Journal decided to develop a New York section, it shelved plans for an expanded Weekend section, despite the fact that all studies seemed to indicate Greater New York would lose money and the Weekend section would make plenty of it. Now there are plans, finally, to relaunch it in the fall.
"It Read More
The Journal has responded to The Times' cease-and-desist letter over the "Not Just Wall Street. Every Street" ad campaign. The Journal said, in words more bitter than this, essentially: Stuff it.
And if you thought The Times' letter was catty? Well, this raises the ante a bit more. And even though the letter is signed by Dow Read More
The Times has not lost any readers since the launch of the Journal's Greater New York section, according to New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson.
“We are definitely not seeing any effect in regard to the circulation,” Ms. Robinson told Bloomberg today. “Are they discounting? Yes, they are, very, very heavily.”
That's a big Read More
A lawyer from The New York Times Company has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the marketing director at Dow Jones after a recent Journal advertisement used the same language as a recent Times ad.
"Not Just Wall Street. Every Street." That's the language of a new New York Times advertisement. It's an obvious dig at The Journal, and a familiar jab as Read More
The Times' Weekend Arts section has gotten reworked, and every move seems to take dead aim at The Journal's Greater New York section.
For starters, the Escapes section, which lost its stand-alone status last year and got lumped into the Friday Arts report, has been killed. The space it used to occupy—the second half of the Weekend Arts report—has Read More
Dispatch from the trenches: The Wall Street Journal is prepared to use a whole host of techniques and tropes to take readers from The New York Times.
With puns: "The times demand it."
With pop: "The times they are a changin.'"
With play: "The Wall Street Journal, now Metro-Sectional."
These are the taglines that will bring The Read More
John Gapper of the Financial Times takes note of recent bit of hustle in The New York Times.
Like pigs searching for a truffle, Times reporters dug through the "maggot-covered garbage" of Faisal Shahzad, who was arrested for the attempted car bombing in Times Square, to find documents and glean extra information about Read More
There's a lovely excerpt from Sarah Ellison's forthcoming book--War at the Wall Street Journal--on the Vanity Fair website. It details how Marcus Brauchli awkwardly tried to work with Rupert Murdoch and how Robert Thomson, an old friend, replaced him.
Just as Mr. Murdoch was taking over, it was Mr. Thomson who told Mr. Brauchli he should ask for Read More
