Editing The Wall Street Journal (section)

===2001: 9/11===
The ''Journal'' claims to have sent the first news report, on the Dow Jones wire, of a plane crashing into the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] on [[September 11 attacks|September 11, 2001]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediaweek.co.uk/news/662527/Raymond-Snoddy-Media-Logic-says-WSJ-safe-Murdoch/ |title=Raymond Snoddy on Media: Logic says WSJ is safe with Murdoch |publisher=Mediaweek.co.uk |date=June 6, 2007 |access-date=June 5, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121222143923/http://mediaweek.co.uk/news/662527/Raymond-Snoddy-Media-Logic-says-WSJ-safe-Murdoch/ |archive-date=December 22, 2012 }}</ref> Its headquarters, at [[One World Financial Center]], was severely damaged by the collapse of the World Trade Center just across the street.<ref name="The Eye of the Storm">{{cite news|last=Bussey|first=John|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000265058230898329|title=The Eye of the Storm: One Journey Through Desperation and Chaos|work=The Wall Street Journal|page=A1|date=September 12, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511142246/http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6536 |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |access-date=September 27, 2024|url-status=dead|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Top editors worried that they might miss publishing the first issue for the first time in the paper's 112-year history. They relocated to a makeshift office at an editor's home, while sending most of the staff to Dow Jones's [[South Brunswick Township, New Jersey]], corporate campus.<ref name="Harris 2011">{{cite web|last=Harris|first=Roy J. Jr.|title=How The Wall Street Journal's improvised 9/11 battle plan helped it to a Pulitzer|url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2011/how-the-wall-street-journals-improvised-911-battle-plan-helped-it-to-a-pulitzer/|publisher=Poynter Institute|date=September 6, 2011|access-date=September 27, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706192242/http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/040802pulitzer5.htm|archive-date=July 6, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> The paper was on the stands the next day, albeit in scaled-down form. The front page included a first-hand account of the Twin Towers' collapse written by then-Foreign Editor John Bussey.<ref name="The Eye of the Storm"/> Holed up in a ninth-floor office next to the towers, he phoned in live reports to [[CNBC]] as the towers burned.<ref name="The Eye of the Storm"/> He narrowly escaped serious injury when the first tower collapsed, shattering all the windows in the ''Journal''{{'s}} offices and filling them with dust and debris. The ''Journal'' won a [[2002 Pulitzer Prize]] in [[Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting|Breaking News Reporting]] for that day's stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2002-Breaking-News-Reporting|title=The Pulitzer Prizes – Works|work=pulitzer.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230004601/http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2002-Breaking-News-Reporting|archive-date=December 30, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Harris 2011"/>

The ''Journal'' subsequently conducted a worldwide investigation of the causes and significance of 9/11, using contacts it had developed while covering business in the Arab world. In [[Kabul, Afghanistan]], reporters Alan Cullison and Andrew Higgins bought a pair of looted computers that [[Al Qaeda]] leaders had used to plan assassinations, chemical and biological attacks, and mundane daily activities. The encrypted files were decrypted and translated.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cullison|first1=Alan|last2=Higgins|first2=Andrew|title=Computer in Kabul holds chilling memos|url=http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/679996.asp|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=December 31, 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020109163051/http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/679996.asp?pne=msn&cp1=1|archive-date=January 9, 2002|access-date=September 27, 2024|url-status=dead|via=MSNBC.com}} Originally published on ''WSJ.com'' as "[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100975171479902000 Forgotten Computer Reveals Thinking Behind Four Years of al Qaeda Doings]".</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgYo05-2F7EC|last=Gerges|first=Fawaz A.|title=The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global|place=|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2009|pages=332–333|isbn=9780521519359}}</ref> It was during this coverage that terrorists kidnapped and killed ''Journal'' reporter [[Daniel Pearl]].