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Richard Pérez-Peña of The New York Times reports The Wall Street Journal is making plans to crank up a sports section. Or, at least, a sports page:

People at the paper who have been briefed on the plan say it is almost certain that a sports page, possibly tucked into Personal Journal, will be created in the next few months. But they cautioned that it was not yet clear how often the page would appear or what kinds of articles it would contain.

OK, so this isn’t really stipple. But
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Covering sports events that last late into the night would be logistically difficult for The Journal, which goes to press unusually early for a major newspaper. [New Dow Jones owner Rupert] Murdoch said at a recent meeting of bureau chiefs and editors that he wanted to find a way to address the problem.

For now, the printing schedule hampers efforts to cover late-breaking news, which suggests that a sports page would contain mostly features, commentary, analysis and investigations.

Murdoch is also considering other radical ideas, like moving The Wall Street Journal away from Wall Street, to his other building on 48th Street.

Read it in the Tuesday NYT.

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