Dow Jones & Co. and The Washington Post Co.
announced that the international editions of The Wall Street Journal will begin
publishing daily news and opinion articles from The Washington Post.
Starting April 1, The Post articles will be
exclusive to The Journal for international English-language newspapers.
Under the agreement, The Wall Street Journal
Europe and The Asian Wall Street Journal will have access each day to news and
feature articles offered by the editors of The Post, as well as Post opinion
columns. Journal editors will select articles for publication; it is expected
that The Journal editions will publish both news and opinion articles from The
Post each business day.
Additional terms of the agreement were not
disclosed.
“After a long and successful newsprint business
partnership with Dow Jones, we place a high value on having a journalistic
relationship with The Wall Street Journal internationally,” said Boisfeuillet
Jones Jr., publisher of The Washington Post.
Paul E. Steiger, managing editor of The Wall
Street Journal said that the agreement will provide greater value on a daily
basis to readers of the international editions.
“We’re particularly pleased we’ll be able
to supplement the work of our own network of more than 150 journalists outside
our home country — already the largest of any publication in the English
language — with that of The Washington Post’s 25 foreign correspondents in
20 bureaus.”
The Washington Post Co. owned an interest in the
International Herald Tribune from 1966 through 2002. The Post will continue
providing access to its material to the IHT on a non-exclusive basis through
March under a previous agreement.