Romenesko

Columbia Journalism Review
Five Mr. Bill dolls molded with facial expressions of concern and dismay would have done as well as the Wall Street Journal's editorial independence committee in handling Marcus Brauchli case, says Dean Starkman. "Oooh nooo! There goes Marcus. Oooh!" He adds: "Cynics will say that this committee was a Potemkin Village all along, and that the luminaries have no interest in protecting the 'authority, reporting relationship and consultation rights' of the world’s most important financial news editor."
> Brauchli sat at WSJ table, next to ex-boss Steiger, at OPC awards (WWD)