Editing The Wall Street Journal (section)

====During Trump presidency====
In 2016 and 2017, the ''Journal'' leadership under Baker came under fire from critics{{who|date=February 2024}}, who viewed the paper's coverage of President [[Donald Trump]] as too timid.<ref name="Ember">{{cite news |last1=Ember |first1=Sydney |title=Top Wall Street Journal Editor Defends Trump Coverage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/media/wall-street-journal-wsj2020.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170213210535/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/media/wall-street-journal-wsj2020.html |archive-date=February 13, 2017 |url-access=limited|url-status=live |access-date=July 14, 2020 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 13, 2017}}</ref> Particularly controversial was the ''Journal''{{'}}s November 2016 front-page headline that repeated Trump's false claim that "millions of people" had voted illegally in the [[United States elections, 2016|election]], only noting that the statement was "without corroboration".<ref name="Ember"/>

Also controversial was a January 2017 note from Baker to ''Journal'' editors, directing them to avoid using the phrase "seven majority-Muslim countries" when writing about [[Executive Order 13769|Trump's executive order on travel and immigration]]; Baker later sent a follow-up note "clarifying that there was 'no ban{{'"}} on the phrase, "but that the publication should 'always be careful that this term is not offered as the only description of the countries covered under the ban.{{'"}}<ref name="Ember"/>

At a town-hall-style meeting with ''Journal'' staff in February 2017, Baker defended the paper's coverage, saying that it was objective and protected the paper from being "dragged into the political process" through a dispute with the Trump administration.<ref name="Ember"/>

On February 19, 2020, China announced the revoking of the press credentials of three ''Wall Street Journal'' reporters based in Beijing. China accused the paper of failing to apologize for publishing articles that criticized China's efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, and failing to investigate and punish those responsible.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wen |first1=Xin |title=China revokes the press credentials of three Wall Street Journal reporters based in Beijing |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/world/2020-02/19/c_1125597355.htm |access-date=October 3, 2020|website=Xinhua News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004061339/http://www.xinhuanet.com/world/2020-02/19/c_1125597355.htm| archive-date=October 4, 2020}}</ref>

In June 2020, following the [[murder of George Floyd]] and [[George Floyd protests|subsequent protests]], journalists at the ''Journal'' sent a letter to editor in chief [[Matt Murray (journalist)|Matt Murray]] demanding changes to the way the paper covers race, policing and finance. The reporters stated that they "frequently meet resistance when trying to reflect the accounts and voices of workers, residents or customers, with some editors voicing heightened skepticism of those sources' credibility compared with executives, government officials or other entities".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Tracy |first1=Marc |title=Wall Street Journal Staff Members Push for Big Changes in News Coverage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/media/wall-street-journal-staff.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711004014/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/media/wall-street-journal-staff.html |archive-date=July 11, 2020 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |access-date=July 14, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 10, 2020}}</ref>