At the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, N.Y., several coronavirus patients under 40, including a few in their 20s, were on ventilators in the intensive-care unit as of Thursday. All were healthy before getting the virus. via
@WSJ
What we now know about how you catch Covid-19: The worst spots are crowded events, poorly ventilated areas and places where people are talking loudly via
@WSJ
Breaking: I have accepted a position
@NYTimes
as Washington investigations editor. I'm grateful for this opportunity to work with the Washington bureau and the NYT's tremendous staff on accountability journalism. And yes, John and I are moving to D.C.
Readers: You'll see a familiar byline here. Rebecca Smith, the nation's premier utilities reporter, is back at
@wsj
. Her new story: Russian hackers have penetrated hundreds of electric utilities and could have caused blackouts, federal officials said.
Our colleague needs your help. Here are resources for people who want to show their support for Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, incarcerated in Russia.
#IStandWithEvan
via
@WSJ
Inspector General said Louis DeJoy, a former logistics executive and major GOP donor, initiated major changes after he took office that contributed to widespread pileups of mail that still haven't been eliminated. via
@WSJ
@joe_palazzolo
w/ Rebecca Smith
Next Installment in
@WSJ
investigation: Judge Gilstrap in TX has taken on 138 cases since 2011 that involved companies in which he or a family member had a financial interest, more than any other federal judge.
@JamesVGrimaldi
@coulterjones
@joe_palazzolo
A life change for me: today was my last day
@wsj
after 18 years of thrilling and rewarding work. I will miss my Journal family. My next chapter in journalism will be announced soon.
@WSJ
scoop: Justice Department is investigating whether a $100,000 donation to a Trump re-election effort came from Jho Low, Malaysian businessman accused in a global scandal
Among the students busted in the cheating epidemic: one suspected of using a drone’s camera to take images of a test to share and a female student who sneezed and disappeared from view, to suddenly be replaced by a male wearing a blond wig. via
@Tawnell
I’m humbled and honored to be elected to the
@IRE_NICAR
board and am so appreciative of the support and encouragement I got. I will do my best to safeguard this institution that we so rely on for training and guidance, especially in tough times.
Full theater in Asheville breaks into applause when Supreme Court sides with freedom of the press in
#ThePost
. It’s still a privilege to be a journalist decades later.
So proud to announce to the world that Tawnell D. Hobbs has joined the
@WSJ
investigations team. In addition to being an incredible watchdog reporter, Tawnell was named a Top 10 Military Veterans in Journalism in 2020. Look out, world!
@Tawnell
It's so meaningful for
@WSJ
reporters to be nominated for the Daniel Pearl Prize for Investigative Reporting by
@deadlineclub
for "Nursing Homes’ Fatal Failures." We are proud to join the
@nytimes
and
@Reuters
as finalists in honoring Pearl's legacy.
Relatives of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got secret stakes in a company set to profit from a new tribal casino in N.C. as it sought federal approval. Those involved deny any quid pro quo.
@MarkMaremont
via
@WSJ
Part II of the
@WSJ
investigation of Covid-19 on cruise ships: Long after cruise-ship passengers caught in the pandemic returned home, thousands of crew members were still stuck on the vessels. Inside their monthslong ordeal.
At Northwestern, students who recently earned a master’s degree in journalism borrowed a median $54,900—more than 3x as much as their undergraduate counterparts did. Worse still, the master’s degree holders make less money. via
@WSJ
I'm running for the board of Investigative Reporters & Editors. If you're a member, please let me know your concerns and ideas for this important organization. And I'd be honored to have your vote. Thanks so much.
@IRE_NICAR
@WSJ
investigation: More than 130 federal judges broke the law, hearing hundreds of cases involving companies in which they had financial interests. Many could now be reopened.
@JamesVGrimaldi
@coulterjones
@joe_palazzolo
After Michael Cohen failed to rig a 2014 CNBC online poll to rank Donald Trump as among the “top business leaders,” the lawyer threatened to sue the network via
@WSJ
The criminal case against former President Donald Trump was triggered by these Wall Street Journal articles about a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, particularly the reporting by
@joe_palazzolo
&
@mrothfeld
. A history here:
via
@WSJ
This second chapter of
@WSJ
's cruise ship investigation is, like the first chapter, brought to you by an all-female reporting crew: This time it was led by Rebecca Smith,
@jacquiemcnish
and
@SuryatapaB
!
The
@WSJ
investigative team just got even stronger with the additional of
@rebeccaballhaus
! She was part of the reporter group that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting on the hush-money payments arranged by President Trump's lawyer.
Many thanks to
@brianstelter
for showcasing the
@WSJ
's reporting on hush money paid to protect Donald Trump's candidacy: "Meet the reporters who started exposing Michael Cohen's payments two years ago"
@CNN
Perhaps it's a good day to plug the "Ask Me Anything" event with Bob Woodward that I'm moderating for the
#IRE20
virtual conference on Sept. 25. Join us with your questions and stay for the entire conference--the best training opportunity in journalism. 9/21-9/25
@IRE_NICAR
I have no idea what happened with other news organizations related to the Stormy Daniels story. I do know that getting this story was HARD. It took
@WSJ
more than a year to nail it down and we had two of the best reporters on the planet on it in
@mrothfeld
and
@joe_palazzolo
.
An update in
@WSJ
vets home investigation: After NJ Gov fired the CEO at Menlo Park, an acting CEO was named. Acting CEO had been disciplined for allegedly failing to preserve video footage in connection with four potential resident abuse/neglect incidents
Shout out to my amazing colleague
@AlexandraBerzon
, for her contributions to series on deadly products sold on Amazon, a Pulitzer finalist She won the '09 Public Service Pulitzer; was a finalist in '11; & was on team that won for Trump's hush money in '19
Columbia J-School grads leave with 60k in debt and make about $43,800 when they get out. Journalism M.A. grads from Mizzou make slightly MORE ($45,900) but have ONE-THIRD the debt. See it yourself
@WSJ
's exclusive tool via
@anfuller
@Mizzou
@columbiajourn
The power of data reporting:
@WSJ
reviewed financial disclosure forms filed annually by roughly 700 federal judges who held individual stocks of large companies, and compared those holdings to tens of thousands of court dockets.
@coulterjones
The 234-page report on the FDIC culture is out & includes many examples of brazen misconduct. A senior examiner was known for going to brothels with colleagues on work trips. A former exec was thrown out of a strip club for inappropriately touching dancers. Employees said they
“How the Trump inaugural committee's costs rose to $100 million — despite throwing fewer events than Obama's team, and hosting them in largely the same venues — is difficult to explain.”
Some hospitals used embedded code to hide pricing data in search results. To find them,
@mcgint
wrote a program that read 3,190 disclosure pages, which searched for a tag in the pages’ background coding that instructed search engines not to index the page.
See how a US senator sent FBI agents to the home of a shortseller who criticized the Georgia-based company MiMedx.
@WSJ
@gmorgenson
@gabejohnsonwsj
Nevada regulators confirmed
@WSJ
reporting and found a number of additional examples of Steve Wynn's alleged misconduct. They confirmed that other executives were made aware of Mr. Wynn’s alleged behavior—but looked the other way. via
@AlexandraBerzon
Here is the
@WSJ
Fall of Steve Wynn coverage that was just honored with a SABEW award for Investigative reporting about alleged sex abuse. Key articles from The Wall Street Journal’s investigation of the man who built modern Las Vegas via
@WSJ
Crew members on 100 of the 106 cruise ships for which the CDC had data suffered Covid-19 infections or “Covid-like illness” between March 1 and June 23 via
@WSJ
That’s a bear cruising between our house and our neighbor’s house. This is the life I get to live because I’m married to
@ForsythJenn
25 YEARS TODAY!!! No, I can’t explain it, either. 25 years! My proudest accomplishment. She has taught me how to love without any doubt.
The Crow reservation in MT has been struck by one of the nation’s worst outbreaks, creating a situation at this
@IHSgov
hospital unlike almost any other in the country: The people helping combat the disease know many of the sick.
@WSJ
@djfroschWSJ
You can look up your college or university on
@WSJ
's tool and see the typical debt load for parents who helped their kids with college loans.
Here's the look-up for my parental debt load at alma mater
@UncAvl
Here's the link to search federal judges' conflicts with their stock holdings. You can search by location or company. Pictured is the result for Wells Fargo stock. via
@WSJ
The Wall Street Journal welcomes back Lisa Schwartz to be a researcher on the investigative team. We missed you, Lisa, and are glad you are coming home.
@Lschw
@WSJ
Great choice by the smart folks at the
@AP
.
@nixonron
is a formidable investigative journalist and a great person. AP promotes Ron Nixon to be its global investigations editor ?
This
@WSJ
investigation on how NYC made Covid matters worse is full of reveals like this one: "Rio Flores, a respiratory therapist, said he documented 50 patients who died in part due to improper ventilator settings by untrained staff..."
@LauraKusisto
New federal data show nursing home facilities’ occupancy fell by nearly 100,000 due to coronavirus deaths, a sharp drop in new admissions and other causes via
@WSJ
@cdweaver
@annawmathews
@jon_kamp
In addition to the four-female reporters who led this
@WSJ
investigation on risks taken by the cruise ship industry when dealing with Covid-19, two more women made valuable contributions: reporting from Tokyo by
@SuryatapaB
and research from
@Lschw
in NYC.
Thought Camden, NJ could never come back? Murder rate now lowest in 3 decades. "We view our service weapon and our handcuffs as tools of last resort," police chief says. via
@WSJ
@WSJ
investigation identified more than 1,000 worker deaths from Covid-19 that circumstances suggest were linked to workplace transmission of the virus but that were never investigated by an OSHA agency.
@AlexandraBerzon
@shalini
@coulterjones
Relatives of U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got secret stakes in a company profiting from a new tribal casino in North Carolina as it sought federal approval.
via
@WSJ
Members of the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers appeared well-organized on Jan. 6. Behind the facade is a yearslong cash crunch exacerbated by internal discord and isolation from financial firms and social media. via
@rebeccaballhaus
@shalini
@khadeeja_safdar
Congrats to my friend and colleague
@JohnCarreyrou
for winning the IRE Book Award for "Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup." If you're one of the few on the planet who hasn't read this tour de force of investigative journalism, it's your time!
#IREAwards
Congratulations to
@WSJ
and
@frontlinepbs
, winners of the 2019 Worth
#BinghamPrize
for Investigative Journalism for “Forsaken by the Indian Health Service.” Their investigation exposed decades of dysfunction inside IHS, resulting in important reforms.
North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows has been ordered to reimburse the U.S. Treasury money paid to his former chief of staff, who was accused of sexual harassment.
From the judges: "The (
@WSJ
) story that would light the fuse of impeachment posted on a sunny Friday afternoon in September, under the headline ‘Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine to Investigate Biden’s Son’ "
Congratulations to
@AlanCullison
,
@RebeccaBallhaus
and
@dnVolz
of
@WSJ
, winners of the Merriman Smith Memorial Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure for Print from the
#WHCA
. To see more – go to
I had chronic asthma as a little girl. To reassure me, my father routinely pointed out that Bob Gibson had severe asthma as a child and went on to be one of baseball’s greats.
Judges called the work “accountability journalism at its finest” and “an example of dogged public affairs reporting based on record requests, on-site reporting and good old shoe leather.”
Three Wall Street Journal reporters have won the Thomas L. Stokes Award for Best Energy and Environment Writing for three articles on “How PG&E Burned California.”
Congratulations to winners
@KatherineBlunt
@RussellGold
and Rebecca Smith! Details here:
After reporting by
@WSJ
and
@frontlinepbs
about an incident at a youth facility in NC, the Indian Health Service has overhauled its reporting practices on sexual abuse. via
@cdweaver
Is this the best quote ever in The Wall Street Journal? “I was thinking about it,” he says, “and thought, ‘Why don’t we just build a big-ass chicken?’ “ via
@WSJ
@cammcwhirter
Latest scoop from
@MarkMaremont
&
@aviswanatha
: The IRS is investigating NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud, according to people familiar with the matter. (An attorney for Mr. LaPierre didn’t immediately comment.)
As a southerner, I would also argue that regional diversity is important in newsrooms. One of my first editors at WSJ struggled with the concept of a Boy Scout troop and thought it should be spelled troupe.
The U.S. Indian Health Service must disclose a report on how it allowed a pediatrician to prey on Native American boys for decades, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday in a lawsuit brought by Dow Jones & Co., parent of
@WSJ
, along w/
@nytimes
.
Because of the State of the Union,
@WSJ
investigation with Frontline on the Indian Health Service will air Feb. 12 instead of Feb. 5.
@Frontlinepbs
and WSJ make a powerful team. Predator on the Reservation
Incoming freshman!
@WSJ
needs your help. We want to see what universities are saying to you in their financial aid letters. You can upload yours and send them to us through the form with this article. Thank you!
via
@WSJ
This
@WSJ
and
@frontlinePBS
investigation "Predator on the Reservation," which airs Feb. 12, benefited from the extraordinary news research skills of
@Lschw
(Lisa Schwartz) who makes all our stories better.
Tanya Stewart, a nursing asst and Crow tribal member, gathered herself before walking toward the patient.
“Hey, mom!” she said.
At this
@IHSgov
hospital on MT's Crow reservation, staff must try to save their own family from Covid.
@djfroschWSJ
Here's the
@WSJ
scoop from 2017 where witnesses said Mike Flynn and Turkish officials discussed removing the cleric Gulen from U.S. Alptekin and Kian, indicted today, were at the meeting when it was allegedly discussed.
@JamesVGrimaldi
@DionNissenbaum
When
@WSJ
sought comment from NYU about a graduate who sold her eggs to deal with her student debt, a spokesman said it encourages students to talk to its aid office. "This is a highly unusual approach.”
@anfuller
@melissakorn
Once again,
@WSJ
would like to thank our partners at
@frontlinepbs
for helping us bring this investigation to light with the film "Predator on the Reservation"
"How the hell am I going to pay this off?" Columbia University film grads say the university blew off their worries about six-digit costs for a master's degree. One administrator's suggestion: Watch the president's dogs.
via
@WSJ
New
@WSJ
investigation: USC recruited aggressively for its online social-work program, drawing in low-income students from across the country. Marketers profiled potential recruits using sketches like "Needy Nelly," a Black woman who "needs hand holding."
Former HHS Sec Tom Price says he doesn't remember writing a letter to 11 insurers on behalf of MiMedx and telling them that their denial of coverage on company product was probably an oversight that required “executive attention.” via
@WSJ
@gmorgenson
Here is the exclusive
@WSJ
report from May on Roger Stone's emails, asking for dirt on Hillary from Assange. "Please ask Assange for any State or HRC e-mail from August 10 to August 30--particularly on August 20, 2011"
@shelbyholliday
@rob_barry
Graduates from a host of well-regarded law schools routinely leave with six-figure student loans, then fail to find high-paying jobs as lawyers. U of Miami J.D. grads had the worst debt compared to earnings of the top 100 law schools. via
@WSJ
@anfuller
Big thanks to cyber-risk expert Tom Alrich for his blog post, explaining to his readers how the
@WSJ
investigation changed his understanding of how Russia is attacking the U.S. power grid. Here's his post: and our article:
From DOJ letter to NJ Gov: "recent reports suggest that the number of Covid-19 deaths at some nursing homes, including New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park...have been understated.” This follows
@WSJ
investigation: via
@cdweaver