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Ex-WSJ reporter Chon apologizes for mistakes, defends herself

Wall Street Journal mergers and acquisitions reporter Gina Chon, who resigned this week after admitting to sharing stories with a government official who later became her husband while in Iraq, sent a message to her friends explaining her actions.

Michael Hastings of BuzzFeed writes, “However, she also admits to making ‘mistakes’ four years ago.

“‘I’m not trying to absolve myself of responsibility. People were hurt along the way and for that, I am truly sorry,’ she writes. ‘I made stupid mistakes four years ago in Iraq while working for the Wall Street Journal and for that, I’m also sorry. I had to leave my job at a news organization I love and for that, I am heartbroken.’

“McGurk, Obama’s nominee for ambassador to Iraq, has faced intense scrutiny in recent days over emails he exchanged with Chon while serving as a diplomat in Baghdad in 2008.

“Chon, who covered Iraq at the time for the Wall Street Journal, agreed to resign from the Journal this week.

“She covered Baghdad for the Wall Street Journal for over two years during some of the most dangerous and most deadly times in that conflict.”

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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.

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