GE could enter bidding for Dow Jones
Russ Britt, the Los Angeles bureau chief for Marketwatch, writes Tuesday that General Electric Co. might be forced to make an offer for Dow Jones & Co., to prevent rival News Corp. from buying the owner of The Wall Street Journal, Marketwatch and Barron’s. GE is the parent company of NBC and business news cable […]
Options to buy Dow Jones stock surged on Monday
Options to buy stock in the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch surged on Monday, Bloomberg News is reporting, the day before it was disclosed that News Corp. had made an unsolicited offer to acquire Dow Jones. The increase indicates that some investors knew about the offer before it became public […]
NYTimes: Murdoch making offer Bancrofts can't refuse
The New York Times story about News Corp. making a $5 billion offer to acquire Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch noted that CEO Rupert Murdoch would use the Dow Jones properties to provide content for his Fox Business Channel scheduled to launch later this year. But […]
CNBC reporting News Corp. offers $60/share for Dow Jones
CNBC’s David Faber is reporting that News Corp., which owns Fox News, the New York Post and other media outlets, has made an unsolicited $60-per-share offer for Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch. According to a brief on the CNBC site, “The Bancroft family, which controls Dow […]
WSJ says circulation up since redesign
The Wall Street Journal said Monday that its circulation has increased since it launched its redesigned paper in January. In comparison, other newspapers saw drops in the first three months of the year. Individually paid subscriptions rose 4.5 percent, and total subscriptions increased 0.6 percent since the launch of its redesign on Jan. 2. Subscription revenue […]
Dallas reporter leaving for WSJ
Sudeep Reddy, a reporter in the Dallas Morning News’ Washington bureau who wrote about the intersection between business and government, is leaving the paper for a job at the Wall Street Journal, according to a memo. Belo Capital Bureau VPÂ David Duitch wrote, “After a wonderful six-year run at the Dallas Morning News, Sudeep is taking […]
New tech site by WSJ reporters up and running
Liz Gannes writes on the GigaOm site that All Things D, a tech commentary site from long-time Wall Street Journal writers Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg, is now live. Gannes noted, “Owned by Dow Jones, the project is an online extension of the pair’s annual D: All Things Digital conference. Swisher will be reprising her […]
WSJ columnist leaving to join start-up personal finance site
Ron Lieber, a Wall Street Journal columnist who has been writing the popular Green Thumb column about savings and spending, is leaving the paper to run the editorial side of the paper’s joint venture that aims to have a new personal finance web site up and running by the end of the year. In an […]
New science writer named at WSJ
Robert Lee Hotz was recently named Science Journal columnist of The Wall Street Journal, according to a release In this role, Hotz’s responsibilities will include writing the Science Journal column that runs in the Marketplace section every other week, alternating with the Numbers Guy column, which will leave Hotz time to write for other parts […]
CJR's Audit needs to come clean about past
Forbes.com columnist Gary Weiss writes that it’s nice that the Columbia Journalism Review blog The Audit has praised the Wall Street Journal’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series about backdating of stock options. But the blog — under a different writer — needs to admit that it criticized the articles when they first appeared. Weiss wrote, “Reading the […]
