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White powder found in Dow Jones newsroom

January 21, 2009

The Associated Press is reporting that police are testing two envelopes found at the Dow Jones Inc. building in New York City that houses The Wall Street Journal. They contained a white, powdery substance.

The AP story stated, “The envelopes were found Wednesday on the 11th floor of the building in Lower Manhattan.

“Further details were not immediately available.”

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Richard Perez-Pena of the New York Times reports that the envelopes were addressed to high-ranking executives and editors.

Perez-Pena writes, “But Journal employees, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter, said that at least some envelopes were sent to Robert Thomson, the managing editor; Paul Gigot, the editorial page editor; and Les Hinton, the chief executive of Dow Jones & Company, the unit of News Corporation that owns the paper.

“The employees said that the executives’ assistants opened some of the envelopes.”

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