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Claim: Wall Street Journal Page One Staff Dissolved

A tipster is telling us that the Wall Street Journal's fabled Page One staff will be dissolved into the news desk. Page One editor Mike Williams would become a "roving features editor," which sounds much less powerful. The Page One desk is responsible, among other things, for the often breezy but always well-researched A-Hed feature, which has been increasingly marginalized as the Journal's front page gets newsier. Its disbanding would mark only the latest move by new editor Robert Thomson to remake the Journal in the image of the Financial Times, Thomson's former employer and a favorite of ultimate Journal overlord Rupert Murdoch. In fact, the paper's old guard is said by our insider to be grumbling that recent FT-like stories, like the front page article on alleged flaws in the Libor benchmark lending rate, are shoving aside "stories that appeal beyond the circle of Murdoch's friends in the global elite." But not all veteran editors are suffering under a cluster of changes said to be coming down in the coming days. More »

8:28 PM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Ryan Tate
4,154 views, 4 comments

Latest by Habari: If one wants the latest news, in little bites, one scans the Internet or one turns on the radio or more »

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Civil War At The Wall Street Journal

Of all the cliques at the Wall Street Journal, the reporters and editors of the newspaper's Money & Investing team were most inclined to accommodate to the new régime put in place by Rupert Murdoch. They're more financially sophisticated than the average Journal reporter, and less precious; the head of the paper's third section is thought friendly with Murdoch aide Gary Ginsberg, and has even been mentioned as a candidate for managing editor; and Money & Investing is widely regarded as the newsiest part of the Journal, in need of less of a re-education than the self-indulgent feature writers of the main paper and the second section, Marketplace. And that's why this week's disastrous pep talk by the Australian media mogul's key lieutenant, Journal publisher Robert Thomson, is so damaging. More »

4:24 PM on Wed Apr 30 2008
By Nick Denton
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Latest by Trai_Dep: Their editorial page is such a sucking black hole of suckitude that I hope Newscorp turns WSJ into The Sun more »

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Nik Deogun

Last night, Gawker compared Nik Deogun of the Wall Street Journal to Quisling, the politician who did Nazi Germany's bidding during the occupation of Norway. Unkind. But the Murdoch favorite should at least pretend to be in mourning for his dear colleague, managing editor Marcus Brauchli—and the ancient freedoms of the business newspaper trampled by News Corporation's jackboots. One former colleague of Deogun, the Calcutta-bred manager of the Journal's Money & Investing section, writes in: "Never have truer words been written than your post on Nik Deogun. Friends of mine still there said he was swanning around the newsroom the morning of the Marcus news with a big smile on his face." More »

10:36 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Nick Denton
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Latest by midgard: But once I caught him when he was open like Silenus' statues, and I had a glimpse of the figures more »