WSJ Confirms Side Deals in Paid Circulation Boost at Journal’s Europe Edition

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By: Steve Myers | Poynter.org

The Wall Street Journal follows the Guardian’s story about a circulation scheme at the Journal’s sister paper in Europe with its own story confirming many of the details first reported by its competitor. The Guardian’s Nick Davies wrote that the Wall Street Journal Europe “had been channelling money through European companies in order to secretly buy thousands of copies of its own paper at a knock-down rate.” The Journal describes an “alleged deal to boost the reported circulation numbers of The Wall Street Journal Europe, in which the paper sold bulk copies to a consulting firm and simultaneously directed money to the firm for separate services.”































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