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☆ More layoffs have hit Dow Jones, and The Wall Street Journal's newsroom sees changes ahead, including cuts, under top editor Emma Tucker
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dow Jones laid off 10 people on the business side last week, the latest in ongoing reductions. Wall Street Journal insiders are prepping for a content overhaul and potential cuts later this summer. A steady drip of layoffs continues at Dow Jones, which laid off another 10 people in the last week of June. The roles were mostly finance, sales, and marketing people who work across Dow Jones properties, which include The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and MarketWatch. The Journal newsroom has largely been spared, but EIC Emma Tucker is conducting a sweeping content review.

Persons: Dow Jones, Almar Latour, Emma Tucker, Tucker, Rupert Murdoch's, she's, Liz Harris, Taneth Evans —, Charles Forelle, Karen Pensiero, Neal Lipschutz, Jason Anders, Thorold Barker, She's, Bernard Arnault, There's Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Dow, Street, MarketWatch, News Corp, Sunday Times Locations: Dow Jones, London, Europe, Middle East, Africa

☆ New hearing due for U.S. reporter Gershkovich, Russia considers U.S. visit request
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

June 22 (Reuters) - U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich faced a new hearing in Moscow on Thursday over his detention for alleged espionage, and Russia said it was considering a request by the United States to visit him in prison. Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying the request was under consideration. The U.S. ambassador has been able to visit the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter only once since he was arrested in March and accused by the FSB security service of collecting military secrets in the city of Yekaterinburg. They are vehemently denied by the Wall Street Journal, by the U.S. government, by his family. "If I'm being perfectly honest, we don't expect anything to come of this but it's really, really important to go through the process," she said.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, Sergei Ryabkov, Emma Tucker, Gershkovich, Tucker, Evan, Mark Trevelyan, Alexander Marrow, Peter Graff Organizations: Wall Street, U.S ., BBC, United, State Department, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, United States, U.S, Yekaterinburg, Washington, Ukraine, American, London

☆ What it's like inside the Titan submersible that went missing with 5 people on board
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Though it’s roughly the size of a minivan, with five adults aboard, the Titanic-touring submersible that went missing Sunday may seem small and cramped. ‘Not your grandfather’s submersible’Titan is sparse on the inside, according to CBS correspondent David Pogue, who took a trip on Titan down to the Titanic wreck last year. The interior of OceanGate's Titan submersible, seen in 2018. The game controller is used for wireless control, according to Aaron Newman, an investor in OceanGate who went down to Titanic on Titan in 2021. After boarding the Titan, temperatures inside the vessel get hot quickly before starting to get colder as it descends towards the ocean’s bottom, he said.

Persons: Hamish Harding, Paul, Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, David Marquet, David Pogue, Pogue, it’s, ” Rush, “, J, Van Gurley, ”, Gabe Cohen, Aaron Newman, Newman, ” Newman, David Gallo Organizations: CNN, OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, Navy, CBS, KOMO, ”, Crew, Strategic Initiatives Locations: British, French, Titan, OceanGate

He was initially remanded in custody until May 29, but a court last month extended his detention until Aug. 30. The United States says he has been wrongfully detained and has called for his immediate release. “We applaud this latest show of bipartisan support from Congress in the fight for Evan’s release. We will not rest until he is free,” Emma Tucker, Wall Street Journal's executive editor, and Almar Latour, CEO of Dow Jones and publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said in a written statement. Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb Editing by Bill Berkrot and Lincoln FeastOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Evan Gershkovich, Read, “, Emma Tucker, Almar Latour, Dow Jones, Paul Whelan, I’ve, Michael McCaul, Kevin McCarthy, Joe Biden, Gershkovich, Patricia Zengerle, Dan Whitcomb, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Wall, U.S . House, Street, House Foreign Affairs, Republican, Democratic, Thomson Locations: Moscow, Russia, WASHINGTON, U.S, Yekaterinburg, Gershkovich, United States, Washington, Ukraine, Lincoln

☆ Ukraine’s Zelensky: We Are Ready for Counteroffensive
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-03 | by ( James Marson | Emma Tucker | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Wall Street Journal insiders are bracing for more changes under its new top editor, including layoffs that could hit as early as this week
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wall Street Journal staffers are bracing for layoff news as early as this week and other changes under its new EIC. Emma Tucker has shaken up the top editor ranks, and insiders expect changes to the editing process. Wall Street Journal staffers are bracing for layoffs and broader changes under new top editor Emma Tucker. People expect Tucker to overhaul the cumbersome front-page editing process for top enterprise stories and deemphasize commodity news in favor of more investigative pieces, with specifics to come as early as June. "She's not afraid to ask questions that are challenging Wall Street Journal orthodoxy," a second insider said.

☆ Newsroom insiders are bracing for changes at The Wall Street Journal under its new top editor, including layoffs that could hit as early as this week
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Wall Street Journal staffers are bracing for layoff news as early as this week and other changes under its new EIC. Emma Tucker has shaken up the top editor ranks, and insiders expect changes to the editing process. Wall Street Journal staffers are bracing for layoffs and broader changes under new top editor Emma Tucker. One audio staffer was laid off last week, in keeping with Journal practice to quietly shed people in small numbers. "She's not afraid to ask questions that are challenging Wall Street Journal orthodoxy," a second insider said.

☆ Gun-loving Texas, where most households own a firearm, has become an epicenter of mass shootings
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Emma Tucker | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +23 min

CNN and the GVA define a mass shooting as a shooting that injures or kills four or more people, not including the shooter. They argue that more firearms and higher gun ownership increases public safety – a stance that continues to be at odds with gun violence experts and data. The area around the Robb Elementary School signs has become a memorial dedicated to the victims of the May 24 mass shooting. Mass shootings are just a piece of that, and the strategies that we’re laying out will impact mass shootings. They’ll also impact a lot of other types of gun violence and that’s absolutely critical to saving lives,” Horwitz said.

☆ A Note to Readers From Editor in Chief Emma Tucker
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-16 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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CNN —Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who was violently beaten by Memphis police officers in January, died from blunt force trauma to the head and his death has been ruled a homicide, his autopsy results revealed Thursday. Nichols was repeatedly punched and kicked by five Memphis Police Department officers on January 7 following a traffic stop and brief foot chase. A toxicology report performed on Nichols detected the presence of chemicals associated with marijuana and alcohol use, the report says. CNN has contacted the Shelby County medical examiner to obtain a direct copy of Nichols’ autopsy report. The Shelby County District Attorney’s Office told CNN on Tuesday that it will not pursue criminal charges against Hemphill.

Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, denies the espionage charges. When asked by the judge if he needed translation, Gershkovich said in Russian that he understood everything. The Kremlin has said Gershkovich, the first U.S. journalist detained in Russia on espionage charges since the end of the Cold War, was caught "red-handed". "He is reading a lot in prison - Russian literature in the original Russian," Nozhkina told Reuters, adding that he was reading Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece "War and Peace" about the French invasion of Russia in 1812. Asked about the prison food, Nozhkina said Gershkovich was being given porridge in the mornings and that the food was normal.

WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The United States on Monday determined that Russia has "wrongfully detained" American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, effectively saying that espionage charges are bogus and that the case is political. The Wall Street Journal has denied Gershkovich was spying. The Wall Street Journal's publisher and editor in chief said the "wrongfully detained" designation "will unlock additional resources and attention at the highest levels of the U.S. government in securing his release." Legislation passed by Congress in 2020 lists 11 criteria to help determine if a U.S. citizen is "wrongfully detained." The Biden administration has secured the release of at least 25 "wrongfully detained" Americans.

☆ U.S. journalist jailed by Russia meets lawyers for first time, in good health - editor
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Last Thursday a Moscow court remanded Gershkovich in pre-trial detention until May 29 on charges that carry a prison term of up to 20 years. He has appealed the detention through his lawyers, as Washington said it was pushing hard to secure his release. The legal avenue is one of several avenues we are working to advocate for Evan's release," said Tucker. The Wall Street Journal denies the charges. Reporting by Jake Cordell and David Ljunggren; Editing by Leslie Adler and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Jailed WSJ reporter in Russia files appeal as U.S. pushes for his release
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, detained on suspicion of espionage, leaves a court building in Moscow, Russia March 30, 2023. A Moscow court last Thursday remanded the Wall Street Journal reporter in pre-trial detention until May 29 on charges that carry a prison term of up to 20 years. The Wall Street Journal has "vehemently denied" the charges against Gershkovich, labelled them a "vicious affront to a free press" and called for his immediate release. The case is the most serious move against an American reporter in Russia since the end of the Cold War. Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker told The Times on Monday she was "hopeful" Gershkovich would be able to speak to a lawyer "sometime next week".

☆ Analysis: Russia's arrest of reporter deepens Biden's detainee challenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-03 | by ( Simon Lewis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

[1/4] Reporter for U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich, detained on suspicion of espionage, leaves a court building in Moscow, Russia March 30, 2023. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said in a news briefing on Thursday the Whelan and Gershkovich cases should not be compared. Russia's security service has, without providing evidence, accused Gershkovich of gathering information classified as a state secret about a military factory. Biden on Friday called on Russia to release Gershkovich. The Biden administration has secured the release of at least 25 "wrongfully detained" Americans.

☆ WSJ editor Emma Tucker finds Evan Gershkovich update 'hugely reassuring"
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —The talk between US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov about detained journalist Evan Gershkovich has been “hugely reassuring,” Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “We know that the US government is taking the case very seriously right up to the top,” Tucker said. The Wall Street Journal knows little about the case, which is one of the biggest problems the outlet is facing, Tucker said. Though Tucker doesn’t have a timeline, she said she is hopeful Gershkovich will be able to see a lawyer next week. “I’m optimistic that we’ll be able to make some sort of contact with him next week,” Tucker said.

☆ Russia's arrest of Evan Gershkovich is the first time the country has accused an American journalist of spying since the Cold War. The Wall Street Journal calls the targeting of their reporter 'a vici
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-02 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

An American Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on Thursday. He is the first American reporter detained by Russia for spying since the Cold War. Gershkovich, a New York-born journalist based in Moscow, was detained in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural mountains. The Wall Street Journal has not been in contact with Gershkovich since his arrest, but the outlet vehemently denies that he was doing anything other than reporting while in Russia. Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Friday that US State Department officials are working with the outlet to find a way to get Gershkovich released from Russian custody.

☆ WSJ editor tells staff she is ‘very concerned’ for safety of reporter arrested in Russia
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Wall Street Journal Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker told staff in a memo Thursday that she was “very concerned” for the safety of Russia-based reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested Wednesday by security forces in the city of Yekaterinburg. “We are very concerned for the safety of Evan and will keep you informed of the situation,” Tucker continued. “Evan Gershkovich is a journalist. He should be released immediately and unharmed and allowed to return to his important work,” said Eileen O’Reilly, president of the National Press Club, and Gil Klein, journalism president of the National Press Club, in a statement. The US government was informed of the arrest of Gershkovich by the Wall Street Journal, according to a US official.

☆ Nancy Pelosi to Be Interviewed at Journal’s Women in the Workplace Forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Natalie Andrews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to be interviewed at The Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Workplace Forum on Tuesday evening at Lincoln Center in New York. The California Democrat, the first woman to serve as House speaker and one of a few in history to hold the position twice, will be interviewed by Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker, in a conversation set to focus on current political events as well as how Mrs. Pelosi made her way to the top of congressional politics and her next chapter after stepping back from leadership this term.

☆ Nancy Pelosi on How Women Can Succeed in Politics, Business
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Natalie Andrews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s advice to women aspiring to succeed in politics or the workplace is simple: Know your motivation, and don’t be afraid to throw a punch. The California Democrat, the first woman to serve as House speaker and one of a few in history to hold the position twice, was interviewed by Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker at WSJ’s Women in the Workplace Forum on Tuesday evening at Lincoln Center in New York.

☆ Nancy Pelosi Interviewed at Journal’s Women in the Workplace Forum
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-21 | by ( Natalie Andrews | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was interviewed at The Wall Street Journal’s Women in the Workplace Forum on Tuesday evening at Lincoln Center in New York. The California Democrat, the first woman to serve as House speaker and one of a few in history to hold the position twice, was interviewed by Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker, in a conversation focusing on current political events as well as how Mrs. Pelosi made her way to the top of congressional politics and her next chapter after stepping back from leadership this term.

☆ Nancy Pelosi to Take Stage at Journal Forum on Women’s Leadership
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Katherine Finnerty | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Nancy Pelosi made history as the first woman to be named speaker of the House. After more than two decades at the helm of the Democratic Party, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) announced late last year that she was stepping down from leadership, but would remain in Congress. Mrs. Pelosi, who made history as the first woman to be named speaker of the House, played a central role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act, response to the Covid-19 pandemic and opposition to Republican former President Donald Trump. On Tuesday, she joins The Wall Street Journal’s Editor in Chief Emma Tucker in New York for an interview about her career and next chapter of Capitol Hill, the future of the Democratic Party and the state of American politics.

☆ Changes hit The Wall Street Journal during new EIC Emma Tucker's first week, as she installs a chief of staff and the paper's veteran managing editor departs
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Steven Perlberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Taneth Evans, who previously ran audience development at The Times of London, will be Tucker's chief of staff, three Journal sources said. The top editorial ranks at The Wall Street Journal are already changing under new Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker. Tucker has tapped Taneth Evans as her chief of staff, according to three Journal sources. On Monday, the British-born Tucker addressed Journal staff for the first time from the paper's New York headquarters. Pensiero held a variety of roles during her tenure, including editor for newsroom standards and managing editor for international.

☆ Dow Jones news to lay off employees today–union
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Helen Coster | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Dow Jones, a division of News Corp that includes the financial news outlets the Wall Street Journal, Barron's and MarketWatch, plans to lay off a number of employees on Wednesday, according to IAPE, the union representing unionized Dow Jones employees. In a statement to Reuters, a Dow Jones spokesperson said that "several teams have partially reorganized to align with our priorities and position us for further growth" and "certain positions have been eliminated." The news of expected layoffs at Dow Jones comes amid planned cuts at other outlets, including the Washington Post. In December News Corp (NWSA.O) named Sunday Times editor Emma Tucker the new editor of the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters Corp (TRI.TO), competes with Dow Jones.

☆ The Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones is laying off staff as it faces an economic downturn
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Layoffs are coming to The Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, according to people familiar with the situation. Layoffs are coming to The Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones, according to people familiar with the situation, with one knowledgeable source saying the cuts amounted to less than 2% of staff. A Dow Jones spokesperson emailed a statement saying: "Dow Jones is focused on continuing to build on the momentum it has generated across its wide range of leading brands and platforms. The Dow Jones cuts come as the Journal has just appointed a new editor, Emma Tucker, from fellow News Corp. title The Sunday Times in London. This article was originally published on the morning of January 11 and has been updated to include Dow Jones' statement.

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