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The Wall Street Journal Goes Pro

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The Wall Street Journal has just launched its premium news content service – the Wall Street Journal Professional Edition. This premium online service provides news coverage and analysis of the Wall Street Journal combined with global business and news sources from Dow JOnes Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires.

The WSJ Professional Edition gives you business and specialized news and information across all major industry, and the hottest discussion trend that matters to everyone.

The Wall Street Journal Pro Edition is a useful tool for analyzing and understanding hottest issues, industries, companies, people and ideas buried deep within news  headlines. The premium service is anchored by leading news and analysis works from WSJ.com. It gives you a new view into key industries as well.

In addition, the premium service also has a powerful search capability.

According to Robert Thompson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of the WSJ, there has no business leaders and professionals given access to the sophisticated, customized service.

“The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition combines the full power of our unmatched global reporting with a unique database.  Users will be able to access this service without being tethered to a clunky terminal, ” said Mr. Thompson.

The Wall Street Journal Professional Edition premium service cost $49.monthly. Existing WSJ subscribers can easily upgrade their subscription at a discounted rate.

The WSJ Professional Edition also allows you to personalize the service to suit your needs. WSJ editor are monitoring and selecting top news and trends across key industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Energy, Media and Marketing, Finance and Technology.  You can customize news alerts and company profiles that are important to you.

Originally posted on April 8, 2010 @ 10:57 am

Wall Street Journal Offers $17.89 Monthly Subscription for iPad Owners

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Wall Street Journal is also diving into the iPad frenzy with a not-so-hard to reject offer for iPad owners. A monthly subscription to the Wall Street Journal delivered to your iPad for a whooping $17.89 monthly fee.

So what do you get after paying that amount? In addition to the freely available WSJ content such as top articles and market data, the paid subscription model to WSJ will also give you access to subscriber-only content including Business and Markets, access to 7-day downloadable archive, personalization and saving features.

Sounds good, right?  Indeed, it is if you’re daily news fare rely heavily on the Wall Street Journal. But as Engadget noted, it may not seem to be cheaper offer though. This is because of the fact that it would only cost you $11.65 to subscribe to both print and online versions of WSJ.

Still, if you don’t mind spending that much for the rightful access to Wall Street Journal Premium content delivered to your brand new iPad, the WSJ iPad subscription seems like a good offer.  I mean, can you just imagine the envy of your colleagues as you read the WSJ from your iPad while waiting for the board meeting to start? You’re earning more than enough anyway so that extra cost shouldn’t matter.

So, what are you waiting for, subscribe to the Wall Street Journal via the iPad now. Click this link to get you started.

Originally posted on April 2, 2010 @ 5:57 pm