Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dow Jones board member is replaced

The Dow Jones & Co. board member who resigned to protest selling the parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch to News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has been replaced, Reuters writes.

The story noted, “Dow Jones, which owns The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Marketwatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires, in a regulatory filing named Joseph Stern as the newest director.

“Stern is currently executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of the company.

“Stern will fill the vacancy left by the resignation of Dieter von Holtzbrinck, who stepped down on July 19 because he could not support the board’s endorsement of a takeover offer from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.”

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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.