A tech reporter provides complete transparency

Mark Evans, former senior technology reporter for the National Post in Toronto, gives a complete disclosure about his dealings with tech companies on his All About Nortel blog. Evans wrote, “There have been a few comments recently about whether I own stock in Nortel or other telecom equipment suppliers; why I insist on writing negative […]

Writing a business book about an unwilling subject

Tad Whitaker of the Marin Independent Journal has a nice story about Wall Street Journal journalist Julia Flynn Siler, who recently published a book about the Mondavi wine family but encountered a number of hurdles along the way. Whitaker wrote, “Flynn Siler had always wanted to write a book and knew the Mondavi story had the […]

British journalist stands by story that Dow Jones/Murdoch deal is done

Richard Siklos of The New York Times reports for Monday’s newspaper that Andrew Neil, the editor and CEO of British magazine The Business, stands behind his story last week that states that a deal between Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, and News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is done. A […]

Jobs cuts possible at WSJ if Murdoch deal fails

Richard Perez-Pena and Louise Story of The New York Times write that job cuts at The Wall Street Journal are possible if News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch is unsuccessful in acquiring Dow Jones & Co., its parent. Perez-Pena and Story wrote, “If the $5 billion bid by Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation to buy Dow Jones & Company, […]

Dow Jones makes last attempt to find other bidders

Sarah Ellison of The Wall Street Journal reports for Monday’s paper that Dow Jones & Co. is making one last effort to find alternative bidders for the company, which has a $5 billion offer from News Corp. Ellison wrote, “The long-shot efforts by the publisher of The Wall Street Journal are designed in part to […]

Memo to Murdoch: Your WSJ will need to cover your company

Former Wall Street Journal managing editor Norman Pearlstine writes in the Sunday Los Angeles Times that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch will need to allow the Journal to cover his company if he is successful in acquiring Dow Jones & Co., its parent. Pearlstine said, “To overcome the journalists’ skepticism and that of the public, […]

Red Herring on its last legs

Owen Thomas of ValleyWag is reporting that the struggling tech magazine Red Herring is apparently about to be evicted from its offices. This comes after the magazine stopped producing a print publication in favor of a web site and starting a social network site. Thomas wrote, “That emergency Friday-night meeting at Red Herring, the once-storied […]

Dow Jones denies deal is done

Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, denied a report in a British magazine that it has a deal to sell the company to News Corp. A Dow Jones Newswires story stated, “A spokeswoman for Dow Jones said the report from The Business was ‘false.’ She said there has been ‘no […]

Where was Bancrofts' attorney?

Rob Cox of BreakingViews.com writes in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that the legendary M&A attorney Martin Lipton seems to have lost his edge when it came to offering advice to the Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Journal, in its negotiations with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch. Cox wrote, “Yet […]

Negotiations complete; Murdoch has a deal

Stephen Brook of The Guardian newspaper in London is reporting that negotiations between Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, and News Corp. are complete, and it appears that Rupert Murdoch will be successful in acquiring the company if the Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones approves the deal. Brook wrote, […]