Jack O’Dwyer writes about how The Wall Street Journal practices “no surprises” journalism in which it gives the subjects of critical stories a chance to respond.
O’Dwyer writes, “The policy was explained to the April 6 meeting of the Arthur W. Page Society by WSJ ‘activism’ reporter David Benoit.
“Some attendees thought what Benoit was saying is that WJS shares stories with subjects before they hit print. That would be a revolution at many media which ‘check facts’ but do not show entire articles to subjects before publication.
“WSJ communications director Steve Severinghaus said in an email that WSJ does not share full articles but it practices ‘no surprises journalism’ which means that ‘subjects are made aware of what we intend to report about them and are given appropriate time to respond to those points.'”
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