Gerard Baker, Editor in Chief of Dow Jones and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, today issued the following statement, verbatim:
For years, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal has enjoyed working with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher to bring the best of tech coverage to readers around the world under the All Things Digital brand, however, after discussions, both parties have decided not to renew the agreement when the contract expires at the end of this year.
Technology is the central driver of economic growth and the Journal is committed to being the indispensable global source of news and information in this critical area. We plan to embark on a major global expansion of our technology coverage, which will include adding 20 reviewers, bloggers, visual journalists, editors, and reporters covering digital. As part of this global push, we will also be expanding our conference franchise to include an international technology conference and building a new digital home for our first-class technology news and product reviews on The Wall Street Journal Digital Network. This new initiative will be an integral part of The Wall Street Journal and will be rooted in the Journal’s reputation for excellent, fair, objective, reliable and stimulating journalism.
As part of the mutual separation, Walt Mossberg will be leaving the Journal at the end of this year. I want to offer heartfelt thanks for more than 20 years of Personal Technology columns as well as his very fine reporting on national and international affairs in the years before he turned his attention to technology coverage.
— Gerard Baker, Editor in Chief of Dow Jones and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal
MacDailyNews Take: The end of an era.
Piece of shit Apple hating toilett paper. Good for Mossberg.
Since the Wall Street Journal employed Walt for 20 years, and gave him the platform that he performed on so well, and Walt was one of Apple’s biggest boosters over those years, your comment is the height of ignorance.
Except the WSJ also wrote a lot of crap against Apple that Walt wasn’t involved with. Most of the WSJ stories wasn’t factual and was just hateful. Walt was the only one there with the facts. however WSJ never consulted him when they wrote a lot of there B.S. hate stories.So I agree with birdy.
OK, so Rush Limbaugh has done more to sell Apple products than any publication on the planet. So you like Rush, right?
Yes, and think most of the press are lib dumb fucks.
Filthy little creep.
I’ll credit Rush for a smart computing platform choice. I can’t say the same for his hateful, divisive, misogynist political choices – he is way off there.
I can’t be sure of the misogynist part—the one time I met him he seemed interested in what I had to say
I enjoyed having a pleasurable lunch with Rush once, and my take is that his on-air personality is a rather clever, and handsomely rewarded, “character” – to a certain extent.
So, he still believes in what he says, but he is able to broadcast his ideas in an over-the-top, polarizing manner that entertains and garners listeners. And, thus, justly padding his wallet with ad revenue.
Politics aside, I found that he’s a personable guy in real life.
I must admit and this is no criticism of you, I find it strange that people expect those who have very different views or politics from themselves to naturally therefore be obnoxious, horrible and nasty when they meet them. I often find people who have similar views to myself to much more unpleasant than some who have very different views. How each person comes across is as much how it combines with any other given person they are communicating with as their own set in concrete views and personality. Some clash some don’t even if either can get on perfectly with other personalities. And as we know opposites can often attract, but thats another story.
I completely agree with spy – as an old codger who has been around the world a few times – in personal encounters, I have run into more vile personalities from those who agree with my philosophy than those who disagree. It seems that in personal meetings, discussions among “like mindeness” fuels hate, while similar meetings of the opposite philosophy go quite pleasantly. This seems to happen on BOTH sides of an issue.
You haven’t really listened to him have you? Let go of your anger and bias and truly listen. You’ll see he advocates freedom and liberty. He rails against big government because it encroaches on freedom.
Apart from him being a hyprocritical, drug-addicted, Viagra-snorting, serial adulterer who spouts decisive, sexist, racist nonsense for Tea Party sub-humans, what’s not to like?
What’s not to like?
You.
Anyone who rails only against big government without railing against big corporations is basically fooling you. See Rush Limbaugh, along with many other “conservative” pundits.
If you want a smaller government because you like freedom, you’d better also be working to simultaneously reduce the power of big corporations. Otherwise, there won’t be anything to counter their oligarchic power.
I sometimes wonder if a lot of these small-government people (who aren’t super-rich like Rush) would actually be anarchists if they could get past the negative stereotypes. Essentially, it sounds like they don’t want anyone to have the power to use violence/force to tell them what to do. Right now, the government and sometimes big corporations DO have that power. If the government gets weaker, the big corporations will probably have even more free reign to build their own security teams, increase control of every aspect of daily life, etc.
You are missing a simple point. When you choose not to pay a company you don’t get their product. When you choose not to pay the government you go to jail.
Big diff
Hateful, divisive? Just because his views don’t jive with yours? I would say you have a far dose of hatefulness and divineness as well then. Misogynist? You must have just thrown that in for good lib measure. But you left out the disingenuous libtard “racist” description for clueless completeness.
Your mature vocabulary tells us all we need to know about you. You have never the Wall Street Journal or any other publication with big words in it.
Indeed. For years, coverage by “uncle Walt” was the holy grail and could make or break a tech play. Still a wise and balanced writer who understands the viewpoint of those outside “the bubble” who buy the bulk of all this stuff. It’s just there are so many other voices completing for attention. Hope he launched something new and cool.
GREED
Rupert Murdock probably played no small role in this happening.
Speculation is fine. Absent facts, sounds more like the typical Rupert control disdain.
I meant Launches not launched.
I hope Walt talks about who pays for what coverage.
Me too. Pull the curtain back and let’s see who the wizard is.
Walt Mosspuppet – Statement of Ethics
http://blip.tv/mosspuppet/my-statement-of-ethics-6479883
(Brilliant)
That is one low bar for “brilliant” you’ve got there.
Farewell to Goatberg. He was at the Wall Street Journal for 40 years, and their highest-paid journalist – worth every penny.
So Walt got fired? They most have found out about his “side job” as a meth dealer…oh wait, this is Walt Mossberg, not EisenBerg? I keep mixing up my Walts…
Heisenberg
You mix up your bergs, too …
‘Twas Android Tourette’s that did Walt in.
Walt just named the iPhone 5S the best in the world. He knew, and took walks with Steve. It truly is the end of an era.
And He walks with me and He talks with me
And He tells me I am His own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known
That press release sounds like it was written by a committee of robots pressing forth into the new global corporate economy.
This is sad news. I always looked forward to reading Walt and Katie’s columns in the Walt Street Journal at the library. They provided many good study and work breaks. I would read some of the finance articles, but their articles were like the dessert, always an enjoyable treat. Ever since Rupert Murdoch purchased the Journal, I have not felt confident it would maintain the same degree of journalistic excellence. I wonder how their decision relates to the new ownership.
Can’t think of a better time to announce a technology story you want to downplay.
This will get buried.
Another Murdoch (aka Mudroach) paper gets rid of someone/thing it doesn’t like.
Quelle surprise!
He’s a complete tool. Good riddance.
– ‘We plan to embark on a major global expansion of our technology coverage, which will include adding 20 reviewers, bloggers, visual journalists, editors, and reporters covering digital.’ – all paid and bribed regularly by Samsung and Microsoft… what a refreshing outlook on all things digital then.
WSJ’s international push – are they moving to Korea now ?
I’m just curious. Is it grammatically correct to say “they agreed to mutually separate”, or would it have been more correct to have said “they mutually agreed to separate”? It seems like the latter is more correct to me, but I’m not a writer for any publications. Anyone?
Maybe even they decided to separate, since it implies they both decided, with mutual understanding.
What’s the matter Walt, not towing the party line?
In some ways it’s not cool that he’s leaving as he tends to be a rare voice of balance for aapl at WSJ.
Wait what?!?!
They are going to expand and focus on technology and they don’t want him to stay? This is fail from the beginning. I wish them bad luck.