Categories: OLD Media Moves

CNBC reports that Dow Jones/News Corp. is a done deal

CNBC’s David Faber is reporting Tuesday morning that Dow Jones & Co., the parent of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch and Dow Jones Newswires, will agree to be sold to News Corp. for $5 billion.

The story on the CNBC web site stated, “Still to be determined is how much of the legal and advisory fees News Corp. in the transaction, Faber said.

“‘It did come awfully close, in fact, closer than many had anticipated,’ Faber said. ‘But at the end of the day, according to people who were working on this, a number of the Bancrofts who had been somewhat vocal in their opposition–Chris Bancroft for example–seemed suddenly at the realization that they were going to have to pay all these banking fees said ‘Wait a second. Hey, if you pay my fees, I’ll give you my vote.’ And that may have turned it.'”

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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.