Breaking: WSJ To Close Boston Bureau

The Wall Street Journal is closing its Boston bureau, announced today, with all nine reporters invited to “apply for openings elsewhere on the paper,” we’ve learned.

The “unthinkable” closure is a response to the “profound economic downturn,” according to a memo sent by editor in chief Robert Thomson.

Thomson also wrote that “there are no plans, nascent or otherwise, to close any other U.S. or international bureau.”

The Boston bureau was led by Gary Putka, who has been at the Journal since at least 1986..

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