WSJ’s Beckett proud paper kept Gershkovich in the limelight

Evan Gershkovich

Assistant editor Paul Beckett said Sunday he was proud that the Wall Street Journal kept detained journalist Evan Gershkovich’s plight in the public eye, reports David Cohen of Politico.

Cohen reports, “‘Very very early on,’ Beckett said on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation,’ ‘someone in the government to whom I’ll always be grateful to for this advice said there’s a time to be loud, and there’s a time to be quiet and now is the time to be loud. And so we stayed loud until we knew the time to be quiet. And that time to be quiet was Wednesday and Thursday of this week.’

“Gershkovich, who was detained in Russia on March 2023 on espionage charges, was among the prisoners and political dissidents released as part of a multi-nation agreement that brought three people back to the United States and 13 to Germany from Russia and Belarus.

“Eight prisoners were sent back to Russia, including convicted killer Vadim Krasikov from Germany and accused spy Mikhail Mikushin from Norway.”

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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.