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Channels with Peter Kafka

Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Emma Tucker became the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief in 2023, and she’s been moving fast ever since. For starters, there are punchier, more provocative stories and headlines. Just as important: She’s been making a series of cuts and staffing changes. That approach has its critics, but it also seems to be working: Subscriptions are up 7% in the last year. In our chat, we discuss all of that, plus more: What her background as a British journalist means as stakes out the Journal’s niche of “American capitalism”; why she felt comfortable running a story suggesting that Joe Biden was “slipping” weeks before it became evident to the entire world; and a brief update on Evan Gershkovich, the Journal reporter who spent more than a year in a Russian jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From the Vox Media Podcast Network, this is Channels. Peter Kafka, that is me. I'm the chief correspondent

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of Business Insider where I cover tech and media. And today I'm talking to one of the biggest

1:50.8

names of media. That is Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal. The Murdoch

1:56.0

family brought in Tucker to run the journal on early 2023. So she's been there nearly two years.

2:01.3

And as we discuss, her mandate seems to be make the journal more lively, make it younger,

2:06.0

and also change the way it is staffed.

2:08.8

Not everyone loves those changes, as we discuss, but a lot of people seem pretty pleased with it.

2:14.4

Subscriptions are up 7% in the last year.

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But let's hear Tucker explain what she's doing in her own words.

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Here's me and Emma Tucker.

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