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How The Wall Street Journal uses quotes on Pinterest

LINK: www.mediabistro.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | March 26, 2012

Elana Zak at 10,000 Words has a piece on the Journal’s Pinterest strategy, which puts selected quotes from WSJ stories into images ready for repinning. (The pic-ization of the web continues.) Smart idea, but I wish they paid a little more attention to copy editing and typography (check that double double quote at the end).

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