Edition No. 102 · Fri 2 Oct 2026 · Story 32 of 51

How The Wall Street Journal implemented audience personas

The Rebooting

WSJ audience strategy head Vivyan Tran describes using personas to grow the paper's readership beyond older business executives.

Interest score

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How this is measured

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  • 1.95Interest score17 of 51 in this edition
  • 1.00NewslettersCount not recorded yet, so neutral
  • 1.50On this siteWhat it touches: places, clubs, leagues
  • 1.30MovementRunning: in 2 of the last 7 editions

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