OLD Media Moves

How the WSJ newsroom has changed under Murdoch

July 31, 2015

Posted by Chris Roush

wall-street-journalMichael Levin interviewed Sarah Ellison, author of “War at The Wall Street Journal,” for the Huffington Post about how the business newspaper has changed since it was acquired by Rupert Murdoch in late 2007.

Here is an excerpt:

Michael: Is it a divided newsroom — those who worked under the Bancrofts and those who arrived with or after Murdoch?

Sarah: It’s not a divided newsroom, but the bloodlines of the Wall Street Journal are still very clear. People there under the old regime feel separate from the people who came to the paper either with Murdoch or after Murdoch. Even though the paper has changed significantly since that acquisition, and a lot of new people have come, the bloodlines are clear. You know the people who were working there under Bancroft family ownership and the people who weren’t.

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