Ken Wells
Ken Wells lives most of the year in Chicago. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and during his tenure as an editor on Page One of The Wall Street Journal two of his writers won Pulitzers.
Guest Column: A Retro Proposal to Restore The Public’s Trust in Media
In 1976, the first year of that annual Gallup poll showing this year’s dreadful erosion in media trust, pollsters found that 72% of those polled had “a great deal/fair amount” of trust in the press. This year a mere 31% felt that way. As erosion in public trust of media becomes an avalanche, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ken Wells suggests a return to the agnostic newsroom.