Parents of jailed WSJ reporter Gershkovich visit newsroom

Evan Gershkovich

The parents of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed in Russia, visited its main newsroom on Wednesday.

Ann Simmons, Matthew Luxmoore and Louise Radnofsky of The Journal write, “In a visit Wednesday to the Journal’s New York newsroom to mark 22 weeks since Gershkovich’s arrest, his mother, Ella Milman, said she and her husband, Mikhail Gershkovich, try to keep their son abreast of efforts to secure his freedom.

“‘We write to Evan and give him updates on everything you are all doing,’ Milman said. ‘Hopefully soon he will be able to thank everyone who is working so hard on his release in person.’

“The Journal’s editor in chief, Emma Tucker, said that the newsroom would continue to make as much noise as possible about the reporter’s wrongful detention ‘until the happy day that Evan is released.'”

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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.