Oliver Darcy of Status writes about discontent at The Wall Street Journal under editor in chief Emma Tucker.
Darcy writes, “On Monday, as The Wall Street Journal prepared for its annual Tech Live conference, hosted this year in Napa Valley, senior executives from Dow Jones and its parent company News Corporation descended on the organization’s new San Francisco offices. The company moved into the modern space over the summer, which now serves as the newspaper’s West Coast hub.
“News Corporation chief executive Robert Thomson and Dow Jones boss Almar Latour both stopped by, joining staffers for a lunchtime Q&A that allowed employees to pose questions directly to leadership. Among the topics raised: whether owner Lachlan Murdoch might one day sell the paper. Staffers were told that Murdoch “loves the newspaper” and that no such sale is in the works.
“But it was a subsequent meeting later in the day, led by Dow Jones human resources head Dianne DeSevo and communications chief Ashok Sinha, that proved more fraught.”
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