Wall Street Journal Goes Video

The Wall Street Journal's Digital Network will debut a live video offering on its website.  In the closest you can get to a video news service other than launching a business network, the Wall Street Journal will broadcast news between 8:30am ET and 4pm ET.  The News Hub, as it will be called, will call on the reporting expertise of reporters from the WSj, Barron's Dow Jones Newswires, and also AllThingsD.com. 

The eight-minute broadcasts, aired throughout the day, will loop during market downtime, allowing users to take a behind the scenes look at what exactly, we're yet to fathom.  Quite what indeed the WSJ is trying to accomplish by this move is another motive we're yet to understand, but all calls from us to the WSJ went unanswered.

According to Mediabitro's Webnewser, Kelly Evans, economic reporter for The Wall Street Journal, will host the morning broadcast focusing on key developments influencing the economic news of the day. The afternoon program, co-hosted by Dow Jones Newswires columnist Simon Constable and Kelsey Hubbard of WSJ.com, will air as the U.S. markets close and will examine what happened that day as well as what those developments mean.