How Hacked Emails and a Yacht in Monaco Ended Jay Solomon’s Career at The Wall Street Journal

Posted Monday, March 5, 2018 10:30 am

Jay Solomon | CJR

Off the coast of Monaco in the summers of 2014 and 2015, I discovered what I thought was a sort of journalistic nirvana for my job as The Wall Street Journal foreign affairs correspondent, in the form of a yacht, the Conquistador.

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How Hacked Emails and a Yacht in Monaco Ended Jay Solomon’s Career at The Wall Street Journal

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