Dean Starkman of the Columbia Journalism Review writes Wednesday that the departure of page one editor Alix Freedman from The Wall Street Journal is a major blow to the paper.
“And tobacco was really only the highlight of a long string of investigative and narrative stories — into the rent-to-own business, alcohol sales in inner cities, a secretive company that dominated the market for cheap handguns—that, safe to say, put Freedman on the top wrung of Journal staffers, probably all-time, which is saying something.
“Freedman would go on to become the standards editor, which is sort of the conscience of the paper, then in April was named to head Page One, where she lasted all of four months before her departure today (and yes, that’s weird).
“But it’s more than a single journalist, but an entire journalism culture that’s in play. To understand, you have to back up a bit — to 1941.”
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