For over a year, a special team of editors within The Wall Street Journal analyzed the state of the newsroom and produced a detailed, lengthy report on what the paper is doing right, and, more important, what the paper is doing wrong. News Corp, the company that owns The Journal, wants the broadsheet to double its readership. The Journal, it said, needs to rethink how it gathers news, what kinds of topics it covers and who its audience is. The report was intended to serve as a blueprint for how the paper should remake itself for the digital age and insure its future. But the company has effectively shelved the report, which was completed last summer; most people in the newsroom have not seen it.

Source: International New York Times April 10, 2021 16:18 UTC