Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker said at least 20 people were involved in the paper’s Donald Trump/Jeffrey Epstein coverage including reporters, editors, the legal team and the standards editor, and that the story took “well over six months,” reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette.
Tobitt writes, “Tucker continued: ‘And my point is, in a world of AI, these are the stories we have to be focusing on, the ones that tell people something they didn’t know, the ones that truly move the dial on a conversation…
“‘We didn’t just do the first story. We did the second story. We ran towards the fire after we published the first one. These stories require a huge amount of effort, resources and legal expertise. They are very, very expensive. You have to have deep pockets and a stiff backbone to do stories like this.’
“Tucker said the ‘strong response’ from Trump was ‘inevitable.’
“But she added that ‘one of the biggest challenges to us now isn’t so much what happens afterwards, it’s what happens before you even publish.'”
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