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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Marcus Brauchli

1. November 15, 2012 06:50 AM

   Marcus Brauchli’s impossible task

   The Post's ultimate problem is the business side, not the newsroom

   By Ryan Chittum

   I can't think of any editor whose last few years ran headlong into the financial collapse of the newspaper industry more than Marcus Brauchli's. Brauchli got the top job at The Wall Street Journal hours after learning that Rupert Murdoch had made the Bancroft family an offer they couldn't refuse. That hapless bunch presided over the unlikely fall of the...

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2. November 14, 2012 04:23 PM

   Marcus the unlucky

   Good fortune followed by bad, and again

   By Mike Hoyt

   Scott Sherman, in "A Rocket's Trajectory," his fine profile of Marcus Brauchli in the September/October 2010 issue of CJR, noted that the man is ambitious but unlucky. Good luck is followed by misfortune, which is followed by good luck, and then again, bad. He started in the basement of Dow Jones, and, twenty-three years later, clawed his way to the...

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