Wall Street Journal Fires Reporter Jay Solomon For Ethical Violations

Get the Full StoryThe Wall Street Journal has fired longtime foreign affairs correspondent Jay Solomon for what it said was a violation of “his ethical obligations as a reporter.”

The paper announced the move minutes before The Associated Press revealed that Solomon was offered a 10-percent stake in a company headed by an Iranian businessman involved in running weapons for the CIA. The AP could not confirm whether Solomon received any money from Farhad Azima, the businessman, or accepted a stake in his company.

“We are dismayed by the actions and poor judgement of Jay Solomon,” a Wall Street Journal spokesman said in a statement to HuffPost. “The allegations raised by this reporting are serious. While our own investigation continues, we have concluded that Mr. Solomon violated his ethical obligations as a reporter, as well as our standards. He has not been forthcoming with us about his actions or his reporting practices and he has forfeited our trust. Mr. Solomon is no longer employed by The Wall Street Journal.”

Solomon, who had been nominated by the Journal for multiple Pulitzer Prizes, led the paper’s coverage the secret negotiations that culminated in a nuclear agreement between Iran, the U.S., and five world powers. In a book published last year, Solomon criticized the nuclear accord, arguing that “rather than calming the world’s most combustible region, it risks inflaming it.”

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