Readers of the Wall Street Journal in Asia's leading financial hubs of Singapore and Hong Kong will no longer be able to get their hands on the morning newspaper.
Parent company Dow Jones has informed Hong Kong readers of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) they will be required to switch to digital subscriptions after October 6. Singapore subscribers have now been told the same news.
A growing appetite for interactive digital content aligned with falling sales in print advertising revenue has been a steady trend that most Asian based consumers want and that publishers in Asia have been trying to fight.
Revenues Peaked
WSJ subscribers in Singapore have been informed that can can revert to an online package of enhanced digital products that include the entire daily version of the newspaper according to the publisher.
As far back as October 2016 the Financial Times reported that print media revenues in Asia-Pacific had peaked in 2013 and ongoing steady declines through the rest of this decade are expected.
Earlier this year Matthew Garrahn of the Financial Times (paywall) reported that «The print edition of the business and finance newspaper, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, would no longer be available in Europe.»
