The paper hired a specialist private investigator to covertly surveil him and his family.
But she needed the work, and the paper hired her to cover the managerial side of sports.
In 2012, the paper hired Glenn Greenwald, a high-profile writer, activist and lawyer who Ms. Gibson said "embodies something that is really quite Guardian".
Once in charge, he swept the advertising inside the paper, hired rule-breaking young journalists and proceeded to create one of the liveliest metropolitan dailies in the country.
At the end of his junior year, he worked as an intern in the Journal's San Francisco bureau, and soon after graduation, in 1964, the paper hired him as a reporter in Pittsburgh.
In "The Shipping News," which goes into wide national release today, Mr. Glenn, the proprietor of a small-town paper, hires Kevin Spacey's Quoyle, a beaten-down refugee from middle America who has come to this remote region of Canada to claim his family heritage.
Mandiant, which the paper hired to investigate, traced the hack to China.
It follows claims on the BBC Panorama's programme that a senior executive at the paper hired a hacker to access a former army intelligence officer's computer.
The paper hired me in 1973 to be a technology reporter, and I actually did it.
The paper hired veteran editor Ellen Pollack, most recently of Businessweek, in April to run its business coverage, and Wall Street Journal masthead editor Rebecca Blumenstein took a very senior position at the paper in February).
