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Inside the WSJ revolt: “A slow-rolling nightmare”

Ryan Mills and Brittany Bernstein of National Review about the issues facing The Wall Street Journal.

Mills and Bernstein write, “Eleven current and former newsroom veterans told to National Review that Emma Tucker, the Wall Street Journal’s new editor-in-chief, ‘appears to lack a basic understanding of American government, politics, and culture.’

“‘They say she seems to be prioritizing less serious lifestyle stories with snappy headlines over hard-hitting accountability journalism. And they worry that several moves she’s made… could lead to readers losing confidence.’

Tucker apparently said at a party last year that she hadn’t realized there were two houses of Congress.”
Read more here.
Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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