{"id":29251,"date":"2014-02-05T21:05:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6e801326c3"},"modified":"2025-01-29T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:12:13","slug":"wall-street-journal-debuts-dedicated-bitcoin-coverage-1391634330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/wall-street-journal-debuts-dedicated-bitcoin-coverage-1391634330","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Debuts Dedicated Bitcoin Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When a venerated institution such as The Wall Street Journal dedicates a new section to covering bitcoin, you know an idea has hit the mainstream. Announced today<\/a>, BitBeat: Your Daily Bitcoin Round-Up will aggregate news stories related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies the WSJ thinks its readers will find important.<\/p>\n

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We are launching a new feature here at MoneyBeat: BitBeat, a daily round-up of bitcoin<\/a> news, notes, and thoughts. The crypto-currency had a hectic 2013, and the new year is already shaping up as a manic one as well. So far, there has been a high-profile hearing on bitcoin\u2019s future, and a high-profile arrest of a bitcoin apostle, and while the price has been stable so far, another wild rally, or brutal sell-off, could come at any moment. We\u2019ll do our best to keep you up to date on all the happenings as bitcoin goes through what many expect to be an important year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The first piece of news? Bitcoin\u2019s latest price, obtained via CoinDesk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Veteran reporter Paul Vigna<\/a> is bringing 16 years of experience covering the financial world to the page, and hopes to update it daily. He describes it as a place for \u201cstuff we don\u2019t have time to turn into stories we can make quick reference to.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far all the stories are from the newspaper itself or CoinDesk.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started writing about [bitcoin] in the spring,\u201d Vigna said. \u201cI just got interested in it so we started doing it. With the volume of things people send me, it just struck me over the head that we should do a roundup.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal joins Forbes in having a dedicated page for bitcoin coverage<\/a>. Interestingly, despite featuring literally thousands of topics, the New York Times topic pages<\/a> do not include bitcoin or cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that I\u2019m writing about it shows that I think it\u2019s an important development,\u201d Vigna said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where it\u2019s going to go. As a writer I think it\u2019s a really interesting development, an interesting story. I think this is going to be a pretty interesting year for it. So that\u2019s why we\u2019re doing this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a venerated institution such as The Wall Street Journal dedicates a new section to covering bitcoin, you know an idea has hit the mainstream. Announced today, BitBeat: Your Daily Bitcoin Round-Up will aggregate news stories related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies the WSJ thinks its readers will find important. We are launching a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3674,"featured_media":29250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-culture"],"author_data":{"id":3674,"name":"Cathy Reisenwitz","nicename":"cathy-reisenwitz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cathy-reisenwitz-promo-image-96x96.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/wall-street-journal-debuts-dedicated-bitcoin-coverage.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3674"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}