In the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Wall Street Journal, the face and name of their reporter imprisoned nearly 5,000 miles away — is everywhere.
That is Beckett's official title — but his real job, since the day they learned Russia had arrested Evan Gershkovich, is to get the newspaper's reporter home. One effort to free Gershkovich and Whelan reportedly involved a complex prisoner exchange for Vadim Krasikov — a Russian security services agent who was convicted in Germany of a political assassination in 2021.
Until then, Gershkovich's colleagues try to support him from afar, by writing messages of hope on a newsroom banner calling for his release and hosting a 24-hour "Read-a-thon" of his stories to mark his one year behind bars.
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