Committee criticizes Brauchli's departure

The Wall Street Journal reports that a special committee charged with overseeing the newspaper's editorial integrity said its members should have been alerted that managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, was pressured to resign.
The committee, created when News Corp. took over Dow Jones lst year, is responsible for safeguarding Dow Jone's editorial independence and integrity.
Brauchli, a longtime Journal editor and reporter, resigned on April 22 and the committee said they learned about his departure too late in the process, a move which they see as a violation of the spirit the agreement.

In its chronology, the committee said it "has not been made aware of any issues of editorial independence or integrity either before or since" the April 22 meeting. The committee said it later met "and decided that there was no practical way to 'unresign' Brauchli and start the process over."
"Under the agreement, the committee has the duty and responsibility to approve or disapprove such actions," the statement said, referring to the removal and hiring of the managing editor. "The Committee intends to exercise fully its role in the approval of a successor managing editor and to take the steps necessary to prevent a repeat of the process it has just been through."

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