Changes Coming to The Wall Street Journal

Posted on December 7, 2001

Dow Jones & Company announced that changes are coming to The Wall Street Journal, including a new section called ``Personal Journal'', improved navigation and enhanced design. The new version of the Journal will appear beginning April 9, 2002.

The ``Personal Journal'' section will be published every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and will offer readers content focused on the ``business of life'', including personal investing, travel, health and family, automobiles and consumer electronics. The Journal will also have a new design that will include increased aids to navigation, more color and fewer typefaces. For the first time since World War II, the Journal's front page will sport a new design, which will include color.

``For more than one hundred years, The Wall Street Journal has brought the world's most vital business news and analysis to its readers,'' said Peter R. Kann, publisher of the Journal and chairman and CEO of Dow Jones. ``Now the Journal will offer those readers more content focused not only on business, but the business of life, while preserving the traditional values of sharp analytic writing, unequalled reporting and breadth of vision that our readers have come to expect.'' Mr. Kann announced the forthcoming changes at an investment conference in New York.

The changes are the culmination of nearly four years of planning, and more than $225 million in capital spending, to increase the page and color capacity of The Wall Street Journal. Beginning January 2, 2002, Mr. Kann also announced, the Journal's page capacity will increase from 80 pages daily to 96. Of these, 24 pages will be color-capable, up from eight pages at present.

The print and online editions of The Wall Street Journal have a total paid circulation of more than 2.6 million. In addition to the U.S. edition, Dow Jones & Company publishes The Asian Wall Street Journal, founded in 1976 and edited in Hong Kong, and The Wall Street Journal Europe, founded in 1983 and edited in Brussels.