‘Day of great joy’: Wall Street Journal’s crusade to free Gershkovich succeeds

 ‘Day of great joy’: Wall Street Journal’s crusade to free Gershkovich succeeds

Newspaper mounted a high-profile campaign to stress reporter’s innocence and ensure he was not forgotten

The reporter Evan Gershkovichs release from a Russian prison on Thursday was celebrated across US and western media but perhaps most happily by journalists in his own newsroom, at the Wall Street Jou…