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The Wall Street Journal is losing relevance - because they have made this article inaccessible/difficult to access, I won't read it, and I'll get this same info

The Wall Street Journal is losing relevance - because they have made this article inaccessible/difficult to access, I won't read it, and I'll get this same information from another source. It's a brave, new world.

eli 13y ago
"Relevance" is perhaps subjective, but the WSJ is the largest newspaper in the US and its circulation is growing--both online and in print.
- CamperBob2 13y ago
  Side rant: for what it's worth, I'm more of an NYTimes person when it comes to where my premium news app subscription dollars go. However, I'm planning to give WSJ a try, not because I like their style or ideology better, but simply because the NYT app developers have some sort of kamikaze methodology going on, in which they are hell-bent on destroying the value of their IP through poor interface design. It's amazing (and more than a little silly) to think that the success of a newspaper -- an exercise in pure content if there ever was one -- might have anything to do with the design of its iPad app. But that's what the WSJ's competitors seem to be trying to prove. Some of WSJ's recent success might just be due to screwing up less than everyone else, because I've heard only good things about their UX. The medium may not be the message, but the latter can't get by without the former. The NYT and some other prominent papers simply don't get that, even at this late date.
- stephengillie 13y ago
  Really? Last I heard, the NY Times was the largest in the US, and its readership was declining.
  - eli 13y ago
    "The Wall Street Journal, owned by News Corp NWSA -3.04% ., maintained its position as the country's largest newspaper by average weekday circulation. The paper had an average weekday circulation of 2.4 million, including print and digital subscribers, as of March 31, up 12% from a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Alliance for Audited Media." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578454693739428314.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732448250457845...

eli 13y ago

"Relevance" is perhaps subjective, but the WSJ is the largest newspaper in the US and its circulation is growing--both online and in print.

CamperBob2 13y ago
Side rant: for what it's worth, I'm more of an NYTimes person when it comes to where my premium news app subscription dollars go. However, I'm planning to give WSJ a try, not because I like their style or ideology better, but simply because the NYT app developers have some sort of kamikaze methodology going on, in which they are hell-bent on destroying the value of their IP through poor interface design. It's amazing (and more than a little silly) to think that the success of a newspaper -- an exercise in pure content if there ever was one -- might have anything to do with the design of its iPad app. But that's what the WSJ's competitors seem to be trying to prove. Some of WSJ's recent success might just be due to screwing up less than everyone else, because I've heard only good things about their UX. The medium may not be the message, but the latter can't get by without the former. The NYT and some other prominent papers simply don't get that, even at this late date.
stephengillie 13y ago
Really? Last I heard, the NY Times was the largest in the US, and its readership was declining.
- eli 13y ago
  "The Wall Street Journal, owned by News Corp NWSA -3.04% ., maintained its position as the country's largest newspaper by average weekday circulation. The paper had an average weekday circulation of 2.4 million, including print and digital subscribers, as of March 31, up 12% from a year earlier, according to the latest figures from the Alliance for Audited Media." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324482504578454693739428314.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732448250457845...