Topic: The Wall Street Journal

Bedbugs Infest 'Wall Street Journal' HQ

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Wall Street Journal employees began their day this morning with a bit of a headscratcher. (More of a head-to-toe scratcher, really.) And this is not the first time.

By Elspeth Reeve

Dec 10, 2012

Cliff Diving

When Bill Kristol Tells The Journal to Give Up on the Cliff, Is That Progress?

It's a sign that maybe there's an emerging conservative consensus, given the growing number of Republican lawmakers suggesting the party should cave on lettings tax rates go up for the top 2 percent of income earners.

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By Connor Simpson

Aug 23, 2012

Mitt Romney Makes His Bain Defense in Wall Street Journal Editorial

Mitt Romney's been getting hammered for his time as the head of Bain Capital for months, and he's sick and tired and not taking it anymore. It prepared him for the Presidency, he says, and he's making his case in a new Wall Street Journal editorial.

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By Esther Zuckerman

Aug 3, 2012

Will Ferrell Cries Over Kristen Stewart's Infidelity; Trains!

Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.

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By Eric Randall

Jul 6, 2012

James Taranto: Why Is This Man HAHAHA-ing?

Getting attention—and clicks—amid the cacophony of Twitter can be difficult, but James Taranto, editor of The Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com and Best of the Web blogger has a maniacally effective (if painful) way of cutting through the noise.

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By Dashiell Bennett

Jul 5, 2012

The Wall Street Journal Lays Into Romney's 'Dumb' Campaign

The latest attack against Mitt Romney and his complicated stance on the health care debate is coming from an unexpected source: the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal.

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By Hannah Miet

Jun 18, 2012

Compulsive Overeating: All the Addiction, None of the Street Cred

Caitlin Moran's personal essay "I Know Why the Fat Lady Sings," calls compulsive overeating "the most pointlessly secret of miseries" for women.

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By Eric Randall

May 16, 2012

The TSA Can Pat Down Henry Kissinger Any Day

We had some fun Monday with The Washington Post's report that Henry Kissinger, wheelchair bound and unrecognized by TSA security guards, underwent a "full Monty" patdown, but ever the Realpolitik practitioner, Kissinger himself didn't take too much issue with the incident

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By Jen Doll

May 2, 2012

Wall Street Journal Writer Doesn't Buy Its 'Nine Rules for Women' Piece Either

Inspired by a recent Wall Street Journal piece titled "Nine Rules Women Must Follow to Get Ahead," we compiled a list of eight other articles that journalists should stop writing. Wednesday, The Journal responded with a new post.

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By Cora Currier, ProPublica

Apr 25, 2012

News Corp. Considered Using Its Editors as Lobbyists

Email messages released Tuesday indicate that News Corp. executives at least considered dispatching top editors of The Wall Street Journal Europe and The Times of London, both News Corp. holdings, to advocate the BSkyB deal.

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By Justin Elliott, ProPublica

Apr 20, 2012

Way Too Many Media Companies Are Lobbying Against Transparency

Many of the country’s biggest media companies — which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations — are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.

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By Eric Randall

Apr 20, 2012

Peggy Noonan Doesn't Like What She's Seeing on YouTube

Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan argued Friday that America is suffering from a "crisis of character," and while her decades of perspective are important in judging these trends, Noonan doesn't take into account how technology has changed that perspective over the years.

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 20, 2012

The Smart Set

OWN Rearranges the Deck Chairs; Malia Obama's Redacted Spring Break

Also: Gwyneth Paltrow insists she knows how to write a cookbook.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 10, 2012

Meet Ruth Finley, Keeper of New York Fashion Week's Calendar for 67 Years

As keeper of the Fashion Calendar since 1945, Upper East Sider Ruth Finley has wrangled the runway shows, events, and parties of New York Fashion Week into a state of relative harmony for the past 67 years.

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By Dino Grandoni

Jan 2, 2012

Stat of the Day

An Issue of The New York Times Now Worth 0.836 of a McRib

The New York Times has raised its price from $2 to $2.50 (or "to 2.50 from $2" if we go with The Times's style) for non-Sunday issues beginning today.

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Oct 12, 2011

Circulation Scam Alleged at the Wall Street Journal Europe

The Guardian reports the European publisher quit over a scheme to boost print sales

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By Dino Grandoni

Aug 1, 2011

Take the Wall Street Journal's Phone Hacking Survey

The Journal is asking readers about the impact of the News Corp. scandal

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By Dino Grandoni

Jul 25, 2011

Stat of the Day

The Guardians of the WSJ's Ethics Get Paid $100,000 Each

In The Atlantic Wire's guestimation, that's about $445 per word

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By Alexander Abad-Santos

Jul 19, 2011

Spatwatch

The New York Times Questions The Journal's Integrity

The battle between market rivals is bigger than their columnists

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By Eli Rosenberg

May 5, 2011

Quote of the Day

Quote: Guantanamo as a Shrine

One Representative isn't buying the argument that Gitmo is worth a second look

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By Alex Eichler

Apr 8, 2011

Bankers Kick Frugality Out the Window and No One Notices

Jamie Dimon's pay package doubled, not that you'd know from The Wall Street Journal

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By John Hudson

Apr 6, 2011

The Latest Craze: Hi-Res Bird Hatching Videos

Spring is here. Time to watch baby eagles get born

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 5, 2011

95% of People Who Say They Need Five Hours of Sleep Are Wrong

You are probably not a member of the 'sleepless elite,' so turn in early

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By John Hudson

Mar 7, 2011

Media Diet

Google's Eric Schmidt: What I Read

The Google CEO dishes on his daily reading habits

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