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WSJ publishes news story contradicting opinion page

The Wall Street Journal has published a news story that refutes claims made by its opinion page about presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, reports Gene Maddaus of Variety.

Maddaus reports, “The conflicting versions — the opinion columns hyping the story and the news pages playing it down — comes amid ongoing tension between the two sides of the paper.

“In July, more than 280 Journal and Dow Jones staffers signed on to a letter to the publisher attacking the opinion pages’ ‘lack of fact-checking and transparency, and its apparent disregard for evidence.’ They faulted the opinion page for running an editorial from Vice President Mike Pence, claiming there was no second wave of the coronavirus. They argued that the opinion page was hurting the paper’s brand, and called for a clearer separation between the two departments.

“In response, the editorial board vowed not to bow to ‘cancel culture pressure’ from the Journal newsroom.”

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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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