Even the PR people are worried about business journalism's future

Kari Hanson, director of corporate communications at Zoominfo, has some interesting perspectives about two recent events in business journalism on her First Person PR blog. The two events are the resgination of PC World’s editor because of what he perceived to be meddling in the editorial content and News Corp.’s $5 billion “friendly offer” to […]

When the biz media writes about itself

Steven Zeitchik of Variety takes a look at the voluminous coverage of the News Corp. offer to acquire Dow Jones & Co. and notes the business media has been put in a position of covering itself — or a rival. For example, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch was interviewed the day the offer broke on […]

Why Murdoch may be the perfect owner for The Wall Street Journal

Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in the New York Times for Sunday — but already available online Saturday afternoon — that News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch may be the perfect owner for the Wall Street Journal. News Corp. made a $5 billion offer to acquire Dow Jones & Co., the parent of the Journal, Barron’s and […]

Financial news = lucrative product

Aaron Patrick, Jason Singer and Stephanie Kang wrote in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about the Reuters/Thomson talks and how that potential merger is indicative of the importance of financial news and information on today’s society. They wrote, “The burst of takeover activity shows that as more and more general news becomes available free online, financial information — […]

Upheaval in financial news

Steve Lohr of the New York Times writes Saturday that News Corp.’s office to buy Dow Jones & Co. for $5 billion plus Thomson’s overtures to Reuters Group Plc signal massive upheaval in the financial news business. Lohr wrote, “Financial news and information, they say, has a growing worldwide audience, and that affluent community is […]

Regulators probing Dow Jones insider trading

The New York attornety general’s office and the Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating possible illegal insider trading in Dow Jones & Co. stock before it was revealed that the owner of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch had received a $5 billion offer from News Corp. Karen Scannell of the Journal wrote, “A […]

WSJ union to Murdoch: You just don't get it

The union that represents the business journalists at The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch responded Friday in an e-mail to its members that comments made by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in a story in Friday’s New York Times show that he doesn’t understand the Journal. News Corp. offered to buy Dow Jones & […]

Trophy business at Dow Jones is online

Fortune senior editor David Kirkpatrick writes that the voluminous coverage of News Corp.’s proposed $5 billion offer for Dow Jones & Co. virtually ignores what he considers the company’s trophy business. It’s not The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s or Marketwatch, but the online operations. Kirkpatrick wrote, “Of course, Murdoch knows how to run papers as […]

Murdoch on what he likes — and doesn't like — about the Journal

Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp. talked to the New York Times for a story published Friday about what he reads in The Wall Street Journal in the wake of his company’s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones & Co., the parent of the Journal as well as Barron’s and Marketwatch. Richard Siklos and […]

News Corp. to woo Bancrofts, WSJ journalists

Dennis Berman, Matt Karnitschnig and Susan Pulliam of The Wall Street Journal wrote Friday that News Corp. plans to shmooze members of the Bancroft family as well as the journalists at The Journal in an attempt to convince both that its proposed $5 billion deal for Dow Jones & Co. would work. The reporters wrote, “The […]