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    Conflict Over Trump Forces Out an Opinion Editor at <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>

    The departure follows weeks of reports of tension on the paper's news side about how to cover Trump.
    by Rosie Gray Feb 10, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Daron Dean / Reuters

    The Wall Street Journal’s editorial features editor has left the paper following tensions over the section drifting in a pro-Donald Trump direction.

    News of the departure of Mark Lasswell, who edited op-eds for the , comes as the paper’s internal tensions over Trump have begun to spill into public view. The reliably hawkish, pro-trade, small government conservative op-ed page has been challenged by the rise of the populist, nationalist Trump movement. The ’s opinion pages have been a showcase for the intra-right

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