Bancrofts would ask for same safeguards with GE/Pearson offer

Aaron Patrick and Sarah Ellison of The Wall Street Journal write for Tuesday’s paper that the Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co. would ask for similar editorial safeguards for the Journal from GE and Pearson that they have asked for from News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch should they combine to make a bid […]

Dow Jones board will get sued no matter what

Joshua Chaffin of The Financial Times writes for Tuesday’s paper that the Dow Jones & Co. board of directors could be put in a precarious position if the Bancroft family that controls the company eschews News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch‘s $5 billion bid for the company for a lower bid that guarantees editorial independence of […]

Analyst: WSJ would shutter European editions, FT to end U.S. edition if deal

A Dow Jones Newswires story about the the possibility of the parent company of the Financial Times and GE, the parent of business news cable network CNBC, joining together to purchase Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, quotes analysts as saying foreign editions of the papers would close under such […]

Burkle nearly ready to make Dow Jones bid

Billionaire Ron Burkle is close to making his union-sponsored bid for Dow Jones & Co., competing against the $5 billion bid made by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch for the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Fortune’s Tim Arango reports. Arango wrote, “The billionaire supermarket mogul Ron Burkle is still working with Dow Jones’ union […]

Covering the Boeing beat

Mike Fancher, the Seattle Times’ editor at large, takes a look at the paper’s Dominic Gates, who covers Boeing like a glove despite the fact that the company moved its headquarters to Chicago several eyars ago. Fancher wrote, “He is also the model for a modern beat reporter. He combines breaking news, enterprise reporting and […]

Financial Times parent seeks partners to make Dow Jones bid

The parent company of The Financial Times is looking for partners to make a bid for Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, according to a story by Dennis Berman and Sarah Ellison on The Journal’s web site. They wrote, “On paper, at least, Pearson and Dow Jones appear a viable […]

Bancrofts want to protect WSJ ME and publisher

The Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co. wants News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch to agree to a proposal that will protect both The Wall Street Journal‘s managing editor and its publisher from his influence before they will negotiate with him, according to a story in Thursday’s Journal by Sarah Ellison. Ellison wrote, “The […]

Bancrofts will allow board to negotiate if Murdoch agrees to oversight of WSJ

The Bancroft family that controls Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, will allow the company’s board to negotiate a deal with News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch if he agrees to an editorial oversight board of the paper that will prevent him from meddling in its content, reports Frank Ahrens of […]

Bancroft proposal to Murdoch on Wednesday

Joshua Chaffin and Aline van Duyn of The Financial Times write for Wednesday’s paper that the Bancroft family was putting the finishing touches on its proposal to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch for a board that would keep him from interfering with the journalism at The Wall Street Journal if they sell its parent company, […]

Murdoch looks to Thomson for advice

Aaron Patrick of The Wall Street Journal profiles Robert Thomson, the editor of The Times of London, who is advising News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in his bid to acquire Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Journal, for $5 billion. Patrick wrote, “The Financial Times’s foreign editor at the time, Andrew Gowers, hired […]