Mediagazer: Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition (Jeff Roberts/paidContent)

11:15 AM ET, March 20, 2012

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:

Why The Wall Street Journal Isn't Adding Digital To Its Sunday Edition — Common wisdom says there's no future in print newspapers and that the rest of the country is fed up with Wall Street. But both propositions fall flat in the case of the Wall Street Journal (NSDQ: NWS) Sunday edition.

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Jeff Roberts / paidContent:
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:

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