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John Robert Emshwiller is a senior national correspondent forThe Wall Street Journal.
In 2002, he shared theGerald Loeb Award for his coverage of the unfoldingEnron scandal withRebecca Smith.[1] The two authored a book on the scandal entitled24 Days.[1]
Emshwiller served as editor-in-chief ofThe Daily Californian, theUniversity of California, Berkeley student newspaper, in Spring 1971.[2] An editorial written during his tenure has been attributed by many people[citation needed] as the cause thePeople'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]
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