WSJ Shutters Boston Bureau

The Wall Street Journal is shuttering its Boston bureau due to a “profound downturn in advertising revenue,” Robert Thomson, managing editor of the Journal, disclosed in a staff memo.

Currently the bureau is home to nine reporters. Thomson wrote that an “investigation function” will remain in Boston.

The memo follows:

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Colleagues,

Today we told our team in Boston that we are closing the bureau in its present form. The economic background to the closure is painfully obvious to us all.

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