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The Post-It Episode

News and notes on the Journal newsroom’s Post-It protest and CNN’s month to forget.

Emma Tucker
Thursday’s protesters appeared to take issue with the fact that Tucker was implementing these eight layoffs despite the fact that the Journal is growing digital subscribers, and netting strong profits for Dow Jones. Photo: Matthias Balk/picture alliance/Getty Images
Dylan Byers
May 31, 2024

On Thursday afternoon, several disgruntled staffers at The Wall Street Journal made a brief march to the office of Emma Tucker, their sprightly, charismatic, and still new-ish editor-in-chief. Since she arrived at the Journal in late 2022, following a stint running The Sunday Times, Tucker has embodied the role that some organizations call a change agent or a transformation executive. In other words, she’s gone through the byzantine org charts and weeded out a lot of employees who got away with not doing a whole lot of work for a long time, or focused their attention on avocational parts of journalism, like mentorship.