Byline crackdown at The Wall Street Journal

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Capital / Joe Pompeo / Feb 13, 2015

“Journal gossip has it that Murdoch himself thought there were too many triple bylines in the paper.” —JB

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Benton, Joshua. "Byline crackdown at The Wall Street Journal." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 13 Feb. 2015. Web. 1 Apr. 2025.

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Benton, J. (2015, Feb. 13). Byline crackdown at The Wall Street Journal. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 1, 2025, from https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/byline-crackdown-at-the-wall-street-journal/

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Benton, Joshua. "Byline crackdown at The Wall Street Journal." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 13, 2015. Accessed April 1, 2025. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/byline-crackdown-at-the-wall-street-journal/.

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