Comparing WSJ Reporters -- How Does Your Beat Reporter Stack Up?
More than 700 individual bylines appeared in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal in October 2006. Photo: Kevin J. Delaney/October 2006
How did the reporter covering your company or clients stack up against his or her colleagues for number and quality of bylines?
Effective immediately, every update or custom NewsBio of active WSJ reporters will include insights not only into the background and reporting of the individual journalist, but also empirical data comparing the WSJ reporter to all of his or her colleagues.
While comparing bylines isn't the only measure of influence for reporters at a news organization, it can yield valuable insights about which journalists get "prime real estate" in a publication and how often.
In October 2006, for example, no reporter at the Journal had more Page One bylines than James Bandler and Charles Forelle, who have been covering the options backdating scandals. Bandler shared frontpage bylines four times, while Forelle shared three frontpage bylines and also was noted at the bottom of a fourth article.
Did you know that in the competition of more than 700 journalists to have their stories spotlighted, even 4 shared bylines in a month was enough to best everyone else?
When NewsBios assigns "weight" to bylines, with individual bylines being "worth" more than shared bylines, then Bandler still leades the October Page One ranking, with 8 points. Also weighing in with 8 points was Jackie Calmes, followed by Yochi J. Dreasen, Pui-Wing Tam, Kevin J. Delaney, Greg Jaffe, Charles Forelle, Bill Spindle and Amy Schatz, all with 6 Page One points.
Among the most prolific byline generators at the paper overall for October are Dennis K. Berman (21); Henny Sender (15), Aaron Lucchetti (15), Neil King Jr. (13) and Gregory Zuckerman (11).
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NewsBios' byline databases are based on actual page-by-page counts of the daily paper and may reflect regional variations. Our counts are also subject to unintentional human error.
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