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 the 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."
He will Read More
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 last week.
Mr. Murdoch Read More
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 its content 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 in July 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
That part of the sale agreement was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday. And for the obsessives, FishbowlNY Read More
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 thing that the Read More
“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 of support 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 video Read More
While you were sleeping, the proposal to sell Dow Jones, Inc. to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. got more complicated.
The Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones Inc., missed a self-imposed deadline yesterday to line up enough votes to agree to sell the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
This morning The Wall Street Journal describes Read More
The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Bancroft family is still divided over whether to sell Dow Jones, Inc. to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for $5 billion.
Michael B. Elefante, the family's lead trustee, indicated to some on the board last night that he has slightly less than 30 percent of the overall vote. Read More
At around noon on Tuesday, Geoffrey V. Raymond, a New York based portrait artist, showed up at One World Financial Center, the offices of Dow Jones, Inc., with a four-foot-tall painting of Rupert Murdoch's face.
Security officers clapped on their headsets, unsure of the building's regulations for unexpected art exhibitions. After some deliberation they sent him Read More
One previously undecided member of the Bancroft family, who votes about 15 percent of Dow Jones shares, has come out against a deal to sell the company to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., The Wall Street Journal reports.
Jane Cox MacElree, whose daughter, Leslie Hill, brought Brad Greenspan and Ron Burkle's counterproposal before the board of Read More
Shortly before 8 p.m., Bancroft family lead trustee Michael Elefante emerged through a revolving door, from the back entrance of the Hilton Hotel, in Boston’s financial district. There, he very briefly addressed reporters, waiting outside in the light rain.
“The family had a very productive meeting, and they now have all the information Read More
