Rupert Murdoch spoke at The D Conference this week, and laid out more non-specific but interesting plans for The Journal.
For months, it’s been speculated that Murdoch cares more about figuring out the actual structure of the paper, and then he’ll get down to the dirty business of assigning the right reporters to Read More
We just caught up with Robert Thomson, who, it was just announced, will be the newspaper’s next managing editor, on the phone. "I feel privileged," he said. "I’m looking forward with much excitement to making the Journal, and its news wires, which is the greatest news organization in the world, even greater."
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Here’s the News Corp. press release. More coming shortly.
Robert Thomson has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, effective immediately, Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of Dow Jones & company, announced.
The Dow Jones Special Committee today unanimously endorsed Mr. Thomson’s appointment following his nomination by the Company Read More
With Rupert Murdoch talking about taking The Wall Street Journals Web site free, Financial Times is girding its loins for battle.
The newspaper announced yesterday that later this month it will initiate a program that allows online readers to access 30 articles a month without registering as paying members of the site.
Presently most of Read More
In the wake of Rupert Murdoch’s purchase of Dow Jones, another veteran Wall Street Journal reporter is leaving the paper to join Conde Nast’s Portfolio.
Scot Paltrow, a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal, will join Portfolio as a contributing editor, starting Sept. 1.
He follows Peter Waldman there; the investigative features writer announced Read More
Yesterday, lots of Wall Street Journal staffers and one former Dow Jones board member, James Ottaway, talked to the Observer about what, in the final hours of News Corp.'s bid to buy Dow Jones, had increasingly become the central issue: Could Dow Jones set up a $30 million fund to pay the lawyers Read More
When the Dow Jones board agreed to sell to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., a condition of the sale was that News Corp. establish a "Special Committee" to guarantee the editorial independence of Dow Jones publications.
That part of the sale agreement was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. And for the obsessives, FishbowlNY Read More
Here was former Dow Jones board member James Ottaway Jr.’s reaction to the news that the Dow Jones board was ready to approve the sale to Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.:
It’s a bad thing for Dow Jones and American journalism that the Bancroft Family could not resist Rupert Murdoch’s generous offer.
It’s a sad Read More
A spokesman for the Bancroft family just sent us this statement:
“The process of canvassing the Bancroft family members and trustees as to whether they wish to commit their respective shares to the proposed News Corporation transaction is still under way. Any suggestion that the process has been completed and/or that a particular level Read More
David Faber, the CNBC reporter who first broke the news that Rupert Murdoch had offered $5 billion to buy Dow Jones, is now reporting that Dow Jones will agree to the sale.
According to Faber, a "definitive agreement" is expected from the Dow Jones board tonight. You can click through here to see CNBC Read More
