Categories: OLD Media Moves

Biz journalists tracking down Murdoch make FT’s front page

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch was in Sun Valley attending the annual media conference when news broke that the company was shutting its News of the World newspaper due to a scandal.

Business journalists leaped into action. The front page of The Financial Times shows CNBC reporter Kayla Tausche and Fox Business reporter Dennis Kneale trying to interview Murdoch.

Here’s a better version of the photo, which is also on the front page of the New York Times website and was taken by Matthew Staver for Bloomberg News:

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.