John Robert Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.

In 2002, he shared the Gerald Loeb Award for his coverage of the unfolding Enron scandal with Rebecca Smith.[1] The two authored a book on the scandal entitled 24 Days.[1]

Emshwiller served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Californian, the University of California, Berkeley student newspaper, in Spring 1971.[2] An editorial written during his tenure has been attributed by many people as the cause the People's Park riot.[3] As an outgrowth of that event, and during his tenure, the university and the Daily Californian severed the university's official sponsorship, and the newspaper became an independent off-campus newspaper.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "John R. Emshwiller" Archived April 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine - HarperCollins bio, Retrieved December 20, 2010
  2. ↑ (January 17, 1982). "Deborah Yaeger Wed to John Emshwiller, Reporter", The New York Times, Retrieved December 20, 2010
  3. ↑ (May 17, 1971). "Berkeley Paper May Lose Funds", The New York Times, Retrieved December 20, 2010
  4. ↑ Tzou, Alice (September 30, 2005). "Alum Editor Lauded for Revolutionary Career", The Daily Californian, Retrieved December 20, 2010


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