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Dark Markets
The Wall Street Journal’s coverage of financial markets in 2012 performed a rare and extraordinary service: It exposed evidence of hidden manipulation by corporate executives and professional traders that the markets’ official government watchdogs were utterly unaware of. Reflecting potential widespread harm to millions of ordinary investors, federal prosecutors and securities regulators raced to follow the Journal stories with major investigations. A team of reporters spent six months creating a database examining how more than 20,000 corporate executives traded their own companies’ stocks over the course of eight years. What the team found was disturbing: More than 1,000 executives had generated big profits, or avoided big losses, by trading their company stock in the days ahead of corporate news announcements that led to big moves in the shares. The Journal also exposed a regulatory loophole that had helped the executives take advantage of inside knowledge ahead of other investors. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office and the Securities and Exchange Commission all launched investigations the day the Journal article appeared.
Tags: Financial markets; corporate executives; stocks; Federal Bureau of Investigation
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WSJ China's Troubled Transition
During his years in China, British businessman Neil Heywood cut a rather eccentric figure, cruising around Beijing in a silver Jaguar with “007” license plates and boasting implausibly about his connections to senior Communist Party officials. When he was found dead in a second-rate provincial hotel room in November 2011—of “excessive alcohol consumption,” according to local authorities—he was immediately cremated and seemingly just as quickly forgotten. Forgotten, that is, until Wall Street Journal reporter Jeremy Page began digging into the case. Using his wide network of local and foreign contacts, the Beijing correspondent discovered that this was much more than a sad case of expat overindulgence. It turned out that Mr. Heywood was in fact very close to the wife of Bo Xilai, a Communist Party rising star—and that he had told friends he feared she might do him harm. The investigation lifted the lid on the extravagant, and often lawless, private lives of the country's elite—a forbidden topic for Chinese media, and one rarely touched on by the foreign press. Mr. Page’s reports, devoured by China’s vast population of Internet users, sparked massive public debate and may even have altered the course of China’s once-a-decade leadership transition.
Tags: Bo Xilai; China; Communist Party; death
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The Pearl Project
The Pearl Project spent more than three years invesigating the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter David Pearl. The investigation found that hte kidnapping and murder was a multifaceted, at times chaotic conspiracy.
Tags: David Pearl; Wall Street Journal; kidnaping; murder
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Personal Space
The "What They Know" series investigates the ways in which technology is making it easier for companies and governments to gather personal information about us.
Tags: technology; privacy; government; companies; wall street journal
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Inside Track
The Wall Street Journal staff exposed how new ways of insider trading have corrupted the U.S. financial, corporate, and political worlds, having enormous impact in the process. The article shows how well-connected investors managed to gain an advantage by getting early clues to the Federal Reserve's forthcoming policy moves, as well as to important legislation from Washington lawmakers.
Tags: Wall Street; insider trading; washington; lawmaker; federal reserve
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The Pearl Project
The Pearl Project spent more than 3 year investigating the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The investigation found that the kidnapping and murder was a multi-faceted, at times chaotic conspiracy. While only four men were convicted by Pakastani courts in the kidnapping and murder, the Pearl Project has identified 27 men who played a part in the events surrounding the case. It concluded that nearly half of those implicated in Pearl's abduction-murder remain free.
Tags: Daniel Pearl; Pearl Project; Kidnapping; Pakastani; Wall Street Journal
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The Pearl Project
An investigation of the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The investigation found that the kidnapping and murder was a multifaceted, at times chaotic conspiracy. While only four men were convicted by Pakistani courts in the kidnapping and murder, the Pear Project has identified 27 men who played a part if the events surrounding the case. It concluded that nearly half of those implicated in Pearl's abduction-murder remain free.
Tags: Daniel Pearl; kidnapping; murder; Wall Street Journal; conspiracy; investigation
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"Capitol Gains"
In this series of stories, Wall Street Journal reporters analyzed "more than 6,000 financial-disclosure" documents to show how "lawmakers and congressional aides" were able to find and use loopholes "in ethics rules to profit from trading the stocks of companies and industries that they oversee on Capitol Hill."
Tags: Capitol Hill; lawmakers; Congress; congressional; financial crisis; stock market
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"What They Know"
For this series, The Wall Street Journal developed its own "proprietary data and analytical methods" to expose how Internet use of individuals is being tracked, and how the information is being used by certain companies to develop explicit files about the users' lives. The Journal went on to reveal surprising ways in which the data "are being used."
Tags: tracking, Internet; database; cookies; beacons; Microsoft; Flowing Data
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Secrets of the System
The Wall Street Journal showed how mining Medicare claims can expose waste and potential fraud in the $500 billion government health program.
Tags: Medicare; cancer; Medicare abuse; cost; doctors