Claim: WSJ's Page One staff to be dissolved
By Leah McBride Mensching, Wednesday 11 June 2008 at 22:50 :: Editorial Content :: #1775 :: rss
A “tipster” e-mailed Gawker, stating that the Wall Street Journal's Page One staff will be absorbed into the news desk, and Page One Editor Mike Williams would become a “roving features editor,” Gawker reported Tuesday night.
The Page One desk has been increasingly marginalised as the newspaper's front page becomes more newsy, Gawker stated.
“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,'” the Gawker article stated.
The e-mail stated that the announcement would come “today or soon.”
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