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Wall Street Journal to Bring Readers The Saturday Puzzle
NEW YORK, Jan. 15, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The Wall Street
Journal is expanding its regular weekend line-up of crosswords and
puzzles and will now feature cryptic, acrostic and novelty offerings with
the debut of The Saturday Puzzle in tomorrow's Weekend Edition.
"The Journal is already home to an outstanding Friday crossword,
and readers will no doubt relish our new Saturday line-up of adventurous and
addictive puzzles," said Robert Thomson, editor-in-chief of Dow Jones &
Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. "Our aim is
to amuse and bemuse intelligent people."
Following the regular Friday Puzzle in Weekend Journal, The Saturday Puzzle
rotation will feature:
- Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon, creators
of the Atlantic's Puzzler,
will contribute a cryptic crossword every four weeks. Readers
who are new to cryptics, which rely on cleverness and wordplay,
can consult a guide to solvers on WSJ.com; - Patrick Berry, author of the "Puzzle
Masterpieces" collection,
and Mike Shenk, the Journal's crossword editor, will offer a
novelty word puzzle every two weeks that explodes the usual
across-and-down grid and replaces it with snakes, snowflakes,
honeycombs, and other mind-bending shapes; - Mr. Shenk also offers an acrostic
every four weeks, in which a
solver fills in answers to clues and transfers the letters to
a grid that spells out a secret quotation.
In conjunction with the launch of the new puzzles, WSJ.com (http://wsj.com/puzzles)
will offer readers the ability to comment on individual puzzles
as well as view questions, tips or analysis posted by others.
The site will also roll out additional games and features in the
coming weeks and months.
About The Wall Street Journal
Founded in 1889, The Wall Street Journal is the world's
leading business publication. Boasting more than two million
subscribers, the Journal is the largest newspaper by
total paid circulation and has the largest individually paid
circulation of the top 25 U.S. newspapers. The Wall Street
Journal franchise, with a global audience of 3.8 million,
also comprises The Wall Street Journal Asia, The Wall Street
Journal Europe and The Wall Street Journal Online at WSJ.com,
the leading provider of business and financial news and analysis
on the Web with more than one million subscribers and 26 million
users per month. WSJ.com is the flagship site of The Wall Street
Journal Digital Network, which also includes MarketWatch.com,
Barrons.com and AllThingsD.com. The Wall Street Journal Radio
Network services news and information to more than 375 radio
stations in the U.S. The Journal holds 33 Pulitzer
Prizes for outstanding journalism, and, in 2009, was ranked No.
1 in BtoB's Media Power 50 for the 10th consecutive year.
Contact:
Media Contacts:
Emily J. Edmonds
Dow Jones & Company
(212) 416-2635
emily.edmonds@dowjones.com
Ashley S. Huston
Dow Jones & Company
(212) 416-2025
ashley.huston@dowjones.com