Benjamin Katz

Award-winning journalist on @WSJ's Business desk. Usually writing about aviation and aerospace from London. Formerly with @business.

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

I've spent the last few months speaking with workers, executives, safety specialists and more about a worrying trend in the aviation industry:

Rates of serious injuries among the crews that handle our luggage, refuel our aircraft and push back our planes have been surging🧵@WSJ

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

What a huge honour to be recognised by the NY Press Club! Congratulations to my colleagues and all the other winners. And icymi, here’s a link to the first story in our @WSJ series on toxic fumes onboard commercial aircraft: https://t.co/nhaKjWdiAM

[NY Press Club @NYPressClub]

🥂Congratulations to this year's winners of the New York Press Club Awards!

Break bread with fellow journalists at our awards dinner on June 1.

Tickets are available NOW!

https://t.co/O1G00Zkc8d

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

Go check out! Includes what I hope is a pretty compelling graphic / and map that AVgeeks might appreciate

[Alistair MacDonald @macdonaldajm]

Missiles and Commercial Jets Are Sharing the Skies in One of the World’s Busiest Flight Corridors. Great story by ⁦@_benkatz⁩ https://t.co/dgHcyZkz3b

[Alistair MacDonald @macdonaldajm]

Missiles and Commercial Jets Are Sharing the Skies in One of the World’s Busiest Flight Corridors. Great story by ⁦@_benkatz⁩ https://t.co/dgHcyZkz3b

[WSJ Communications @WSJPR]

Today, Dow Jones CEO and Wall Street Journal Publisher Almar Latour and Wall Street Journal Editor in Chief Emma Tucker released the below statement on @WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich.

Statement here: https://t.co/RNR1yj4TZO

#IStandWithEvan

[Alistair MacDonald @macdonaldajm]

Evan Gershkovich is innocent. Evan is a staff reporter of The Wall Street Journal and as we watch these baseless proceedings play out, we must not let anyone, or any government, suggest otherwise. The time to bring Evan home is now #JournalismIsNotACrime #IStandWithEvan #FreeEvan

[Alistair MacDonald @macdonaldajm]

Today marks 63 long weeks, 441 days, since Evan Gershkovich was detained. #istandwithevan #journalismisnotacrime

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

With Boeing in the throes of its latest crisis, rival Embraer is exploring options for a new model to challenge the duopoly for large jets that has dominated the industry for almost three decades https://t.co/oQnpWtlFlX via @WSJ

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

🎧 Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, @_benkatz profiles Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, the F-bomb-dropping CEO on the verge of earning an over $100 million bonus https://t.co/vpbx7xGptR https://t.co/vpbx7xGptR

[Paul Beckett @paul4thepress]

A new message from Evan’s colleagues at ⁦@WSJ⁩. #iStandwithevan #FreeEvan

[Alistair MacDonald @macdonaldajm]

March 29 marks one year since Even was seized by Russian authorities for doing his job. A year of missed birthdays, holidays, family celebrations, friends. A year without his exceptional journalism. Rest assured, this newsroom will not stop until he is free. #IStandWithEvan

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

A passenger on the Japan Airlines plane in the Tokyo airport collision recalls a “big boom” and a dash for survival https://t.co/Pzi7QMzTeH via @WSJ

[Paul Beckett @paul4thepress]

Our WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich is @poynter media person of 2023 for “shining a light on the truth.” He needs to be home and back at work. Now. #IStandWithEvan https://t.co/AFu9SebpLB

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

Airlines hoped that instances of passenger aggression and disruption would get back to normal after the pandemic's mask mandates were dropped. Not quite. https://t.co/RKYVUpGYoS via @WSJ w/ @alyrose

[jenny strasburg @jennystrasburg]

This is about the night an Ohio refinery exploded and caught fire, and the brothers who died that night.
Made possible by the family members and refinery workers and others who trusted me to tell this story, and @KatABrew @matt_kwong - who made this sound the way it does*

[Katherine Brewer @KatABrew]

I've worked in audio for more than 15 years, but this summer @jennystrasburg sent me a google drive full of some of the most powerful tape I've ever heard.

Please listen to this podcast episode we made with @matt_kwong and @GrifffT, it is a special one.

https://t.co/g8aUjLA6eH

[jenny strasburg @jennystrasburg]

The @WSJ wants to hear about safety in the oil & gas industry, airline industry & elsewhere.
Ways to do that:
[email protected]
Or send securely via https://t.co/T4VF69Pw2f (c/o me, or Ben Katz, or another reporter).
What do you think we don't know but *should*?
Thanks.

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

This might sound odd all-things considered, but if there's a piece of journalism I'd urge you to read right now it's this outstanding, months-long investigation by @jennystrasburg:

How two brothers died at a BP refinery https://t.co/uRS4R6CcoT via @WSJ

[Alistair MacDonald @macdonaldajm]

A Russian court upheld the detention of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. "It’s outrageous that Evan continues to be wrongfully detained. The accusation leveled against him is categorically false, and we continue to demand his immediate release." home.https://t.co/eyzSVEEt82

[Thomas Gryta @tgryta]

Airlines are checking their fleets after regulators and engine makers claimed a small broker sold spare parts with forged safety documents. https://t.co/Et3zKfTvyZ @sharonterlep @_benkatz

[Benjamin Katz @_benkatz]

The aviation industry's hiring spree is exposing security gaps at airports across the world -- and organized crime has noticed https://t.co/q1qR3Qnpvv via @WSJ