Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich Arrested in Russia

Unlike you, I don't know exactly what happened.

But the White House briefed reporters under terms of the story being embargoed until the prisoners / hostages were in U.S. hands. My guess would be that it was the reporter who agreed to that embargo.

I don't know the structure of their newsroom, or really how breaking news works in those kinds of instances. But is it possible that her editors had no idea of the embargo terms because she didn't properly inform them, she just filed a story?

Her statement is pretty carefully worded about not doing "anything that was knowingly inconsistent with the administration's embargo." I'd like to know, then, what she "unknowingly" might have done.

Bloomberg as a news organization screwed up bigly. As for how the screw up happened, there is a there there that isn't clear.

At least they have owned the screw up completely in the aftermath, and apologized to try to save some reputational damage.without any "but" explanations. That isn't a given. How many times has the New York Times (for example) done mea culpas that tried to mitigate some screw up rather than just owning it?

 

If so, that's on the reporter for not telling her editor. And once it was posted, on Twitter, she needed to make a phone call ASAP and get it taken down because I'm sure the White House/others were on her immediately when it was published.