WSJ Will Hire Twelve To Cover New York City

Right after announcing it would close its Boston bureau, the Wall Street Journal is gonna make a brand new start of it in old New York, with the announcement that the paper will hire a dozen reporters to cover traditional city desk beats in the Big Apple.

It’s part of owner Rupert Murdoch’s plan to create a New York edition, which could launch early next year, the New York Times reports.

An obvious choice for the NYC staffers would be the laid-off Boston writers, but they covered the Boston mutual fund industry, not crime, courts, and city hall.

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