The Wall Street Journal’s editor in chief Gerard Baker sent out a massive memo to staffers that was only matched in its size by the changes announced within.
In the interest of keeping things short, that’s exactly what the Journal plans to do: Cut back on story length. “Bluntly — but obviously, I hope — every story should be as short as it needs to be,” explained Baker. “There’s no excuse for a single otiose word or punctuation mark in our writing.
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