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Category Archives: WSJ
The Hero System of WSJ Editor Emma Tucker
Stand in the Journal newsroom an hour before the page closes and watch the life cycle of a scoop. A reporter has something no one else has. An OpenAI deal, a hospital chain in the Justice Department’s sights, a number … Continue reading
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What It Would Mean for The Wall Street Journal to Put the Reader First
Wall Street Journal readers don’t read for affirmation. Instead, they seek working intelligence more than affiliation. A man reads the Journal to act. He allocates capital, prices risk, hires, files, builds, regulates, or sues, and he needs the paper to … Continue reading
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Emma Tucker: Running Toward the Fire
Emma Tucker (b. 1966) edits The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, the first woman to lead the paper since its founding in 1889. Her career maps the transformation of elite Anglo-American journalism across three decades. She rose through … Continue reading
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Matt Murray: The Custodian
Matt Murray (b. 1966) holds a place in American journalism that rests less on a signature investigation or a body of prose than on his stewardship of large institutions through their hardest decades. He rose from the reporting core of … Continue reading
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Ten Convenient Beliefs For Leaders Of The WSJ Iran War coverage Now
Stephen Turner’s convenient beliefs are operating at full throttle in the Wall Street Journal newsroom, the Washington and Jerusalem bureaus, and the editorial-page offices right now. With the U.S.-Israeli campaign in its second month, Khamenei martyred, nuclear sites cratered, Iranian … Continue reading
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The Jurisdictional Wars: Alliance Theory and the Battle for Authority at the WSJ
Editors, reporters, and senior leaders at the Wall Street Journal do not compete for authority by saying they want power. They compete by invoking languages of accountability journalism, subscriber value, audience-first decision-making, and responsibility for sustaining a trustworthy institution inside … Continue reading
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Emma Tucker and the Wall Street Journal
Mark Halperin says he checks the WSJ before any other news source. The WSJ has always been good. Now its great. Emma Tucker arrived in February 2023 as the paper’s first female editor-in-chief, handed a mandate from News Corp to … Continue reading
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The Best Newspaper In The World
The WSJ has become the most interesting, important and exciting newspaper in the world. They’re breaking so many fascinating stories. Mark Halperin says he’s checking the WSJ before the NYT these days. Why has the WSJ become awesome in the … Continue reading
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