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WSJ lags behind competitors in covering foreclosure scandal

Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review writes that The Wall Street Journal has fallen down on the job of covering this week’s foreclosure scandal in comparison to the New York Times and the Washington Post.

Chittum writes, “There’s an A3 news story today. There was an inside story yesterday from the Bay Area that touches around the edges of the scandal but, bizarrely, doesn’t even mention it. On Monday there was a decent feature, also on A3. There was a 700-word C5 story a couple of weeks ago, and other than three or four FT-length news stories, that’s it.

“Compare that to The New York Times and Washington Post which (especially the Post) have a fraction of the business staff that the Journal has.

“The Times has put the story on a section front eight times, including twice on the front page this week.

“The Post has done even better. I count four page one stories on the scandal, including an agenda-setting one on September 23, and several other major pieces.”

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