G. Pascal Zachary

In a dozen years as a senior writer at The Wall Street Journal, I wrote many significant articles for page one of the newspaper. Here are some of my favorites:

“Environmentalists Find a New Line of Work as Soldiers of Fortune,” WSJ, June 19, 2001

“Ireland Once Sent Priests to Africa, Now It’s Collecting: Changing Economic Fortunes Make Nigerians the New Irish,” WSJ, May 11, 2000

“War and Remembrance: How America Manages to Let Go of its Past,” WSJ, May 7, 1999

“Great Expectations: Tale of Two Brothers in Malaysia Illustrates High-Tech Parable,” WSJ, Feb. 24, 1998

“Yanks in Vogue: For France's Gemplus, The Secret of Success Is Made in the U.S.A. --- It and Other Foreign Firms Adopt American Methods,” WSJ, June 8, 1998

“In Berkeley, a New Struggle for Change, Or At Least Coins – Its Parking Meters, Enemies of Many People, Disappear In The Night,” WSJ, June 23, 1998

“Troubled Tower: Pursuit Over Diversity Stirs Racial Tension At An FAA Center – Air Traffic Controllers Split Over Affirmative Action to Combat Past Bigotry,” WSJ, Dec. 3, 1998

“Boys Used to Be Boys, But Do Some Now See Boyhood as a Malady?” WSJ, May 2, 1997

“CEOs are stars now, but why?” WSJ, Sept. 3, 1997

“Junk History: It’s Bigger Than Big, It’s More than News, It’s a Defining Moment: From O.J. to the Gulf War to Diana’s Death, Impact Is Often Exaggerated,” WSJ, Sept. 19, 1997

“Many Firms Refuse to Pay Overtime,” WSJ, June 24, 1996
[a page-one expose on disregard for overtime law]

“Signs of Revival: Some Unions Step Up Organizing Campaigns and Get New Members; In Major Shift in Strategy, They Now Woo Workers in Bottom-Tier Jobs,” WSJ, Sept. 1, 1995

“Can Unions Organize Low-Paid Workers? Watch This Woman,” WSJ, Oct. 23, 1995

“Exporting Rights: Levi Tries to Make Sure Contract Plants in Asia Treat Workers Well,” WSJ, July 28, 1994

“High-Tech Firms Shift Some Skilled Work to Asian Countries: Like Blue-Collar Employees, West’s professionals Face Job Competition Abroad,” WSJ, Sept. 30, 1994
[a groundbreaking article on what came to called “outsourcing”]

“Computer Simulations One Day May Provide Surreal Experiences: A kind of electronic LSD?,” WSJ, Jan. 23, 1990