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Tensions Erupt Inside Wall Street Journal Over Competing Projects About Imprisoned Journalist Evan Gershkovich (EXCLUSIVE)
Evan Gershkovich has his own film and book in the works, sparking tensions inside The Wall Street Journal over competing projects.
That same day in 2024, Journal colleagues Joe Parkinson, chief of the World Enterprise Team, and senior reporter Drew Hinshaw published a 7,000-word deep dive that chronicled the wild saga that ended in a prisoner swap and Gershkovich’s release. In February, Amazon MGM Studios, United Artists and Scott Stuber acquired the film rights to Gershkovich’s in-the-works memoir for Crown Publishing and attached Edward Berger(“Conclave”) to direct. Parkinson and Hinshaw, who together wrote the 2021 Harper book “Bring Back Our Girls” about the famed Boko Haram school kidnapping, enjoyed unrivaled access to the State Department in their reporting on Gershkovich’s detention and release.
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