Depends what sort of impact we are talking about. Lower level staff cannot make decisions on what stories to follow, where and when the stories are run and unde

Depends what sort of impact we are talking about. Lower level staff cannot make decisions on what stories to follow, where and when the stories are run and under which headlines, or the general editorial bent of the paper. The tone and the quality of the copy writing at WSJ remains impeccable, the content, not so much.