Almar Latour, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of Dow Jones & Co., writes about the mission of the newspaper.
Latour writes, “At The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, we remain undeterred from our mission: To provide the world’s most trusted journalism, data and analysis to help people make decisions. That focus helped us to finish last year strong, recording the best year in our company’s history. We are helping our customers navigate the path ahead by building a sustainable, thriving information business for the modern era that will allow us to continue to invest in world-class journalism, data and analytics.
“Under the leadership of editor in chief Emma Tucker, our journalists are as focused as ever on reporting the news. Leading by example is Mr. Gershkovich himself, who remarkably is back to reporting and writing. His return to the Journal’s pages came on Dec. 12 in a gripping byline shared with Drew Hinshaw, Joe Parkinson and Thomas Grove that offered a deep dive into the Kremlin spy unit responsible for his captivity.
“For her priorities, Ms. Tucker, like any true journalist, cares greatly about remaining unbiased during this time of seismic change domestically and around the world. Stateside, she has redistributed her economics and politics teams across the nation, not just concentrating them in coastal cities. She has brought on top-talent journalists who are committed to reporting the essential news that our readers expect from us. She tells me ‘we live in a fractured news environment where adherence to truth and objectivity is fragile. I want our readers to rely on us to provide fair, balanced, well-written, factually correct journalism.'”
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